GreeneTHE KINGSTON and St. Andrew Corporation (KSAC) says it will be going ahead with the massive removal of vendor stalls from no-vending streets areas in downtown Kingston this weekend.
A similar move was promised last weekend, but failed to materialise because of uncertainty about support from the security forces and forecast of rains islandwide, said Errol Greene, Town Clerk at the KSAC.
"We are moving them this weekened. I am sure. Even if it rains, we are going to be moving them," the Town Clerk pledged earlier this week.
He said last Thursday night that he had been promised strong police support to back up plans for a big removal on Saturday night, but he needed to confirm their support and finalise details with the police today.
He said that the KSAC will be removing stalls from previous areas, cleared under a plan of action that had seen it removing stalls from the Parade and Beckford and Princess streets, among others.
"We plan to clean up the areas we had cleaned up before. We are hoping that the police will take charge after that and that the vendors won't come back because the police are out and they have established a presence. We'll be starting at Old Wolmer's Yard and working our way back," he said.
The lack of adequate police support was cited as a reason for the failure to implement vendor-removal plans last year and was a major concern of Michael Ammar, Jr., president of the Jamaica Chamber of Commerce, and Francis Kennedy, head of the chamber's Urban Renewal Committee.
