{"id":19257,"date":"2024-04-30T01:47:10","date_gmt":"2024-04-30T01:47:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/?p=19257"},"modified":"2024-04-30T01:47:33","modified_gmt":"2024-04-30T01:47:33","slug":"georgetown-city-council-removes-demico-house-vendors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/georgetown-city-council-removes-demico-house-vendors\/","title":{"rendered":"Georgetown City Council Removes Demico House Vendors"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n\n<p>By Nakasia Logan<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The long-standing issue of vendors encumbering Demico House in Georgetown has seen significant progress as the Georgetown City Council conducted a swift operation to dismantle and remove the vendor stalls from the surrounding pavement. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This action came two weeks after Banks DIH obtained a court order to have the vendors removed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>City Engineer Colvern Venture affirmed the council&#8217;s commitment to upholding the court order, with plans to deploy City Police to prevent vendors from returning to the area. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Around 20 individuals received notice letters to vacate, although the decision was met with resistance from the vendors.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Banks DIH Group Chairman Clifford Reis highlighted the impact of the vendors on sales, emphasizing the need for their removal. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The High Court, responding to Banks DIH&#8217;s legal action, ordered the removal of all structures and vendors surrounding Demico House, along with similar orders won by Shamdas Kirpalani and Muneshwers Limited against vendors.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The vendors, who sold a variety of goods including food, clothing, shoes, and vegetables, had encroached upon the vicinity of Demico House for several years, impacting the operations of surrounding businesses.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Nakasia Logan The long-standing issue of vendors encumbering Demico House in Georgetown has seen significant progress as the Georgetown City Council conducted a swift operation to dismantle and remove&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":19258,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[350],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19257","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19257","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19257"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19257\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19259,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19257\/revisions\/19259"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19258"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19257"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19257"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}