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| Police over look the demolition of booths at the Port in Scarborough. Photo courtesy TobagoNews |
Tempers flared and tears flowed as the hammers of the Public Health Department came down on several dilapidated booths outside the Scarborough Port on Carrington Street on Sunday.
Public Health officials and staff of the Division of Infrastructure and Public Utilities, under the watchful eyes of police officers, swooped down on the booths just after sunrise and began demolishing the structures that have formed part of the landscape of that area for a number of years.
One of the affected vendors, Jemilyn Forbes told Tobago News she is devastated by the development. “Right now my head spinning like a top and my heart just racing up and I find it was real unfair because they taking rent from me on the Port,” the vendor lamented.
She explained that her struggles with the issue began about three years ago when she got a visit from the Public Health officials who expressed concerns over the state of the booths.