Yallahs market to undergo repairs soon - McKenzie

By Halshane Burke    

 

Work will begin in short order to repair the Yallahs market in St. Thomas.

 

That's the word from Local Government Minister Desmond Mckenzie.

 

Minister Mckenzie, who toured the market on Wednesday, said the Local Government Ministry will work with the St. Thomas Municipal Corporation to carry out an extensive clean up of the market to facilitate a proper assessment.

 

"Once the assessment is done - and I'm quite sure that the assessment will point into the direction that the vendors want somewhere to go - what I'm going to ask the municipality to do along with the councillor is that once we clean up the place, and if there are those outside who would be willing to come in temporarily while we do what is necessary, we will allow them to come in until we do what is necessary to take them off the streets, to give them at least a proper foundation, a proper location for them," he noted. 

 

Minister Mckenzie said consultations will be conducted with the vendors to get them off the streets over the next few weeks. 

 

"I'm expecting that within another three weeks, we will have a full outlay, costing and everything as to what the first phase of the cleanup is going to be, and then we look at the design phase, because already you have a structure, which I hope the technical team will tell us that the only thing that needs to be done is the roof, because this is ideal as a market."