Bartlett: Sando vending chaotic

Earlier this week, San Fernando Mayor Junia Regrello relaxed the vending policy to allow vendors the chance to sell on the street.

Bartlett yesterday described High Street as “very chaotic” and noted neither the municipal police nor national police “could control what is going on on High Street.” “They cannot, it’s just too much for them to handle, because one of the ministers gave permission for people to break the law on High Street in San Fernando, so if a minister is giving that opportunity for people to break the law what do you expect for all those bandits around, they would say it is a free for all,” Bartlett said.

“I think we have to careful that we don’t degenerate into a banana republic where anything goes,” she said, adding, “and I always say if we maintain law and order, things would go very well in the country.” Bartlett described sales for business owners as “very slow” saying the anticipated last minute rush had not materialized with persons purchasing the “very minimum” in gifts.

“We are not seeing the expected increase in sales, it is still very slow,” Bartlett said, “I mean I am in the second city of the country, San Fernando and one would have thought that people would rush to do their last minute purchases, but we are not seeing that at all, we are just seeing people buying barely the minimum, gifts, probably the very main one, and purchasing small and inexpensive gifts,” she said, adding, “remember we in San Fernando cater for the poor people, we are not in the mall, so it has not picked up as had anticipated.

“We are looking forward to a better 2017 with more law and order, not just anything goes.”