Isiah "Sookie" CarterIt is not often you'll find men who choose to make their livelihood as a market vendor.
Meet Isiah "Sookie" Carter, a man who dreams of nothing else but selling his own farm grown products at the market.
For more than 20 years, Carter has been selling ground provisions in the Christiana market, and while he believes market life has changed he is determined to continue.
Carter started as a farmer then decided to also sell his produce. Along with his wife, who has a stall in the same market, they began to 'market' their produce.
He says he loves the people, the feel and the smell of the market: "Me and mi wife come here to sell everyday except Sundays. Mi stay out here on the front and she stay at the stall inside," he said pausing to sell a customer.
Carter who sells from a small box at the entrance of the market, said the operation of the market has also changed. Once, he said, you could sell anywhere, but now: "The people in charged here keep telling us to go into the market but when we go there nothing nah sell."
"Now them send the security them to take away we things because we stay out here so me have to be very careful," he added.
Sales have decreased, Carter explained, but selling in the Christiana market has become his life and he will be there as long as he is in good health.
