Yallahs Market to be renovated Minister of Local Government and Community Development, Desmond McKenzie, has announced that the St Thomas Municipal Corporation now has possession of the Yallahs Market and that renovations are slated to take place. Speaking at the recent handover of a new two-bedroom unit under the Indigent Housing Programme in Seaforth, the minister said that the property was leased to a former councillor for more than 25 years and was not to be operated as a market. "The vendors had to sit outside the gate of the market; [they] can't enter the market.
We gave a commitment that when the lease expired, we would not extend the lease to any other individual. That lease has expired," the minister said. "As soon as the estimates are completed, the ministry will provide the funds to renovate the Yallahs Market so that the vendors can finally go back in the market and ply their trade and be better than they are today.
It's a commitment that we made and we are fulfilling that commitment," he added. Farmers assisted under Hurricane Beryl recovery programme More than 22,000 farmers have been assisted under the Government's Hurricane Beryl Recovery Programme, according to Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Mining, Floyd Green. Speaking during the recent handover of agriculture supplies to farmers at SCJ Holdings Limited in St Catherine, Green informed that inputs distributed to the beneficiaries include 50,000 chickens, comprising broilers and layers, as well as ass.
