‘No fight against poor people’

According to Jamaica Observer (General News), MANDEVILLE, Manchester — Mandeville Mayor Donovan Mitchell has announced that, effective November 26, there will be a ban on the use of the Central Car Park in the town centre for a wholesale market. “The decision follows numerous complaints received from the taxi associations. The [Manchester Municipal] Corporation must ensure that the car park can effectively serve its intended purpose and facilitate orderly transportation,” Mitchell said during Thursday’s sitting of the corporation. “I was there [in the car park] Tuesday evening and what I saw was not a wholesale market. Three pounds of carrot and five pounds of Irish potato and two pounds of yam is not wholesale market. There is space in the Mandeville Market and we intend to create additional space. “That is the space that we want to use for vending,” Mitchell added in reference to plans to demolish an old derelict building at the b