Twenty stalls were gutted by fire at Linstead Market on June 1.
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Norman Scott, Chairman of the St. Catherine Municipal Corporation
By Warren Bertram
Chairman of the St. Catherine Municipal Corporation Norman Scott is highlighting the need for insurance for vendors following recent market fires in the parish.
Twenty stalls were gutted during a suspected arson at Linstead Market on June 1.
Mr. Scott said insurance coverage for vendors should become standard practice.
"I think the time has come where some kind of compensation, insurance package need to be set up by government for these people because we would have understand (sic) that, yes, some of them do it because they love it. Some of them do it because there is no other way of earning a living and we as the political directorate needs (sic) to look at some insurance package," he proposed.
Mr. Scott also indicated that only one of the affected Linstead Market vendors was registered.
"That one vendor said they have only lost $30,000. Well, I want to use this opportunity to say that we are going to be refunding fully the $30,000," he announced.
Mr. Scott said the municipal corporation will assist the other 19 vendors in becoming regularised. He also suggested that they could be compensated as well, despite not yet being registered.
In addition to the blaze at Linstead Market, a number of shops in the market district at Cumberland Avenue in Spanish Town were destroyed by fire on Wednesday.
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