Improvements that are needed
Joel Bancroft- Patient Need Pharmacy ‘Changes I will like to see lie in infrastructure and security. There are robberies happening around the market on persons. The roof needs to be improved and sanitation of the market needs to be improved also. The market at the front here don’t flood as it used to. They have done some work on the pavement outside and the flooding has eased out there.’
Zamad- Zamad’s Music Centre ‘We need an upgraded market, we need a nice air condition market that will attract people and allow them to shop in comfort. We need a market that is well-organised. We have been complaining to the different mayors but no one has listened. I have never seen any improvements. We have had breakages, leaking roof, we have been complaining but never saw any action taken. The flooding situation has eased because they did some work on the external drainage but within the market nothing. We will like to see the lighting in the market improved. We need to have a day where they will clean the entire market. The walkways need to be resurfaced as well. I think they should look at the opening hours as well. They should change the opening hours because when you come early people are not ready to buy but in the afternoon more people come to the market.’
Petrula Bowen- Clothing Vendor ‘I will like them to extend for an hour so that we can have sales. By time the public servants come off the market is already closed. We open 7am- 4pm, we don’t mind opening for an extra hour because it is a big setback right now. Especially when a holiday is around the corner. We also need better security in the market also.’
Daren Gordon- Meat Vendor ‘First of all we need to look at the hygiene in the market. As meat vendors we are dealing with meats and there is blood but when we clean up our stalls we don’t have proper drainage. Also we don’t have ready access to water which is something that needs to change. We have to fetch water from the corner and keep drums filled. Hygiene is key but there are a lot of rats and roaches and strays in the market. I will like to see them sanitise the market and spray pesticides to get rid of insects. They do clean the market but as soon as there is rain, the drains in the market overflow. It is clogged up. The market hours should be extended, in the afternoon people shop after work and with the market closed we lose business. Security needs to be beefed up in the market as well.’
‘I will like to see the drainage in the market improve, I think it needs to be restructured because it is not able to drain the market effectively. We are paying revenue but we are not seeing where the revenue is going. I had to buy zincs and put up a second roof over my stall because the market roof is leaking so bad, my products and machines were getting wet. They need to close the market for a two days or so and spray the entire market thoroughly, we are willing to make that sacrifice because it is for our own health. I hope these issues can be addressed under the new Mayor.
Dr Roxanne Padmore- Carmen’s Grocery ‘There are a lot of issues in this market. The first you see when you are coming into market in the morning is vagrants. Seeing people taking showers, clothing hanging on the market, food boxes, people cooking, meat coming in and blood dripping all over the pavement, when you see something like that people don’t want to come in. own clean up to There are a lot of the market. When market is always cannot take off th it becomes a we market. I will like I told the mayo through the mar know it is a long done but we can pave clean and th lot of revenue fr and I will like t money return to u `Sanitation is a b have a huge mos market right now, workers when the would tell you th tary, people com mosquito biting vagrants outside t ving the custome people want to sh they see vagra wouldn’t want to go to a supermark side there it don’t people coming an and they would th right out there. I t a space to take the let them mess up gon be easier to also another issue parking space, the the market, they g