Chaguanas market vendors are unhappy.

They want increased security, clean toilets and the removal of other vendors selling on the pavements around the market.

These were among the complaints Mayor Natasha Navas heard yesterday, as she conducted her first official visit of the market and spoke to more than 400 vendors.

Navas said she walked throughout the market to ’get a feel of the place’ and the problems of the vendors.

’I met a large number of vendors and a team of officials who accompanied me, conducted a survey to find out the most urgent needs of the vendors,’ Navas said.

She said cleaning contractors had not been doing their jobs.

’The toilets are in a terrible state and vendors feared they would become ill if conditions were not improved,’ she said.

Navas said a number of vendors used booths at the facility for storage while selling their merchandise at the market gate.

She said the issue of overcrowding and parking, as well as other concerns would be discussed at a committee meeting today.

There are over 1,000 registered vendors at the Chaguanas market, she said, adding that terms and conditions for vending would be revised and changes made to reduce the number of vendors and clear the pavements.