GUADALCANAL PROVINCIAL GOVERNMENT CONCERNS ABOUT HONIARA MARKET WORKERS

The Guadalcanal Provincial Government is calling on the Honiara City Council, HCC, to address the problem of overnight stay at the Central market premises.

The Guadalcanal Provincial Government is calling on the Honiara City Council, HCC, to address the problem of overnight stay at the Central market premises.

Guadalcanal Province Deputy Premier, Andrew Rayboy says it has come to the stage where daily market the majority of them women from East and West Guadalcanal are being harassed and sworn at by Honiara City Market employees.

He says responsible authorities including HCC, the GP and the police deal with swearing and other forms of harassment to those who stay overnight at the market.

Mr Rayboy says whatever regulations that the HCC imposes on Guadalcanal people must also apply to people from other provinces.

He says the Guadalcanal Province is aware of the unemployed from many squatter areas surrounding Honiara City who have become permanent stayers at the market buying and reselling produce brought in from Guadalcanal farmers.

Mr Rayboy says these groups are treating the main market as their trade post daily and they must be removed.

Source: SIBC