A worker loading wood onto a truck for removal.

RAIN HAS prevented several vendors from dismantling and removing their stalls in the aftermath of Bridgetown Market and Grand Kadooment last weekend.

However, the Sanitation Service Authority (SSA) is also reminding them that they must not only remove the stalls but
also the pallets which ended up an expense for the SSA every year.

When a NATION team visited the Spring Garden Highway yesterday there were still several stalls to be taken down although workmen were busy loading vehicles.

But public relations officer of the SSA Ian Bourne has charged that several stall owners were removing their stalls
but leaving the pallets.

Remove stalls

Bourne said that stall owners entered into an agreement with the National Cultural Foundation which required them to remove both stalls and pallets which are part of the stall.

"Every year we have to take out hundreds of truckloads," he said, noting that this resulted in increased cost.

Bourne said it was also time-consuming since other tasks could be carried out instead.

Meanwhile Judit Cort who operated a food stall reported satisfactory sales but said her stall would have been removed by yesterday had it not been for the rain.

Another food vendor, who asked to be identified as Sandra, said "everything was good" although she was somewhat affected
by the weather.

She too said said she would have removed her stall Tuesday night if the rain had not fallen.

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