City Hall CoI hearing
…market clerks seized $400,000 worth in goods
The probe into City Hall’s operations continued on Friday at the Critchlow Labour College on Woolford Avenue, by means of a public hearing during which it was heard that Mayor Patricia Chase Green before taking the substantive post, made “not so good” comments about vendors and their trade.
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Desrey Dey, a vendor at Bourda Market, whose stall along with 21 others was demolished in September 2015, gave her testimony which included a statement that was made by Chase Green during an encounter.
Under oath, she stated the vendors were told by Town Clerk Royston King that they would have to remove their stalls to make accommodation for works at the Bedford School which is located in close proximity to the market.
Consequently, meetings were held but King did not show up which kept the vendors waiting at City Hall for hours.
A few days later, he instructed that an excavator be taken to the market to shred the stands, causing major destruction.
Dey noted that at that time, the machine pounded on the roofing support of the structure, demolishing the stands and all of the goods the vendors would have bought to sell for the Christmas season. It is estimated that she would have lost close to $300,000 in goods.
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