NOTICE TO ALL ST. JOHN’S CITY VENDORS
Mandatory Daily Removal of Vendor Structures
Effective immediately, all vending structures must be removed at the end of each business day. This includes tents, tables, stands, carts, chairs, trays, crates, pallets, umbrellas, food vans, food booths, and any other fixtures.
This measure is necessary to ensure proper cleaning and maintenance of the streets, sidewalks, gutters, and drains by the St. John’s Development Corporation, the National Solid Waste Management Authority, and the Central Board of Health.
Structures left overnight hinder cleaning efforts and contribute to sanitation issues and visual clutter in the city.
Vendors who fail to comply will have their items removed at their own expense.
We ask for your cooperation as we work to maintain the cleanliness and public health standards of St. John’s City.
Issued by the St. John’s Development Corporation
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So they have to remove it and put back everyday? that making nosense
I hope there’s a good plan in place for the vendors.
Nonsense
Since when does it hinder clean efforts? lol
Noted ANR
There are too many vendors on the streets in the city the whole place looks like shanty town at Carnival time, just unsightly, it’s not just removing their stuff at end of day some should be removed completely
I Pray to God that the GHETTO LOOK that have been brought to our Capital will finally be addressed.
I hope the politicians get the balls to do something for this country.
The government should remove them all PERMANENTLY. Clear the streets and sidewalks of all that crap. They are an eyesore and make the city look like garbage trucks are dumping their rubbish all over the place.
Remove the. Serian shop. Wa. A stink up the. Place. With. Poor. Drai. And. Clean the. Sea. Mouth. Way when u on. Sea Road. Ake. Perry Bay. Road. Way u can see all them. Bottles. And. Plastic. Or a. Next ting. Plz. Me no know who in charge plz plz. Up to now the galvanize and. Steel and pices of. Wood wa are u left up o. All saints road. Stop light by will D building. When. Ull say u was fixing up the gutter ull go move it. Come. On it says. Alot about who a supervise ull put in charge. Only can wonder how ull. Yard stay. So just sudden fu think Bout as me say its says alot
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@Talk if e bun u. What? Please write in English on this website. Thank you.
This is certainly a good step in the move to bring some order and decorum to the City. I would respectfully suggest that SJDC work alongside a retailer in St John’s to source and order these collapsible, foldable, durable and weatherproof stalls and sell them to the vendors. This will also bring some uniformity and colour to the process . I have seen this sucessfully done in other places and we can implement it in Antigua and Barbuda as well. Vendors need to be given a two or three month deadline to move to this new arrangement
PPP – Piss Poor Planning, and PPM – Piss Poor Management are [finally] being addressed. I’m quite sure, that there are laws and ordinances, on the books which address all of the issues plaguing the growing and advancing City.
Hopefully, the agencies which are responsible for enforcing these policies and guidelines are doing so, as part of their responsibility and duty, to do so and not because of #polical_gimmickry.” Laws are on the books to cover everything from ingress, egress, setbacks, etc.
There is no way, that politicians should even be a part of this solution, outside, of procuring the necessary FUNDING for the advancement, future developmental plans and FUNDING for PRESENT Management.
Jumbee_Picknee aka Ras Smood
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Vere C. Edwards
That area needs to be remodeled it’s very difficult for cars and pedistrians to travel there on a daily basis
Why don’t just take them up forever. This place should be the cleanest in Antigua and we see a bunch of old tents and crates. Let’s get better than this and clean up our country
After all it’s a government entity. What else did you expect? Everything linked to the government are all the same.
This is certainly a step in the right direction in making Antigua clean, orderly and beautiful. Vendors also need to be mindful to refrain from impeding pedestrian and motor traffic.
The vegetables vendors that pay their rent, taxes, statutory contributions are inside the vegetable market. Then the people that rent them these stalls rent these hustles spots outside around the market and right up market street. They take bribes and allow these none nationals ( more than 90 % of them are ) . to sell outside the market. Some of these people have two and three stalls. They also sell uptown on the sidewalks. They have mothers, fathers, sons , daughters all from the same household vending- spreading their filth all over the city.
Solution- that street by bridge with the deep gutter. Is it Thames Street? The one that run from Edris right up to country pond. Cover that and turn in into a nice vendor walk. Stalls like those back of post office can be built there .
Let the vegetable and fruits vendors stay inside the market. The exception should be on the days when the farmers come to market. Tuesdays , Fridays and Saturdays. They should sell their stuff in their pickups or designated areas . No one should ever pass the fence area of the market. That is by VC Bird statue . Note no one should be selling on the sidewalks in tents at no time outside market . Those west of Sammy supermarket, those on both sides of the fisheries complex, meat market , Right up to the Casino. That includes those Syrians selling Fans in the middle of the street outside Burger King as well.
All the Syrians selling on the sides walks – fans , rugs , bikes etc move them inside. Cannot give anyone a chance otherwise it will start all over again.
Fitzy has been plying his trade for decades . He will have to do his stuff in his Vechicle. Fitz time to get a nice little van , put your name on it . You are iconic figure. You use to sell to the cruise ships and was the first to have steel pans playing on ships. You will have your fruits packed nicely in your van at a designated parking- probably in one of the banks lots or any lot owned or operated by government or any statuary body and continue footing it with your tray. No one should be allowed to park and sell out of no vehicle.
Not a bad idea of getting vendors off the streets. I am an Antiguan living overseas and every time I come home and see this it looks very untidy.
Just a suggestion I don’t know if the old fish market is occupied but why don’t you the (GOVERNMENT) use that space and extend the market so as to have everyone housed. WOULD LOOK A LOT NEATER.
@ nice boy it’s an eyesore I’m so embarrassed when I go home and bring my friends to visit with me the first thing they ask is this little Brooklyn I just smile and say ah guess so nasty and disorderly can’t pass on the sidewalk or even drive on the road properly and most of them so dam rude I don’t even bother come down so often anymore what they need to do is what one citizen said prior let them buy those structures so that they all looked uniform and stop the selling of fruits n food put them people near the vegetable market disgust me
Now how does that solve the daily dilemma that pedestrians face? How does that solve the unsightly look of the city, when they can bring them back everyday? Someone please make it make sense.