The Barbados Labour Party Government has completed a new draft Bill to govern vending across the country.
Minister of Energy, Small Business and Entrepreneurship, the Honourable Kerrie Symmonds, revealed in the House of Assembly this morning that the new Bill will be introduced to Parliament shortly and would seek to decriminalise and legalise a system of vending.
For too long, he said, poor, working-class Barbadians have been treated badly in the justice system when their only infraction has been erecting a stall without permission or placing a tray in such a manner that it blocks a sidewalk. The new legislation will create vending zones and a policy framework that would make the lot of vendors much more tolerable.
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