Abandonment Of Project Food Court: Relocation of Food Vendors Square Bruce Questioned

In 2009, the Municipality of Curepipe has dislodged the food vendors of the main arteries of the city to relocate the Bruce Square. A decision that supported Michael Sik Yuen, then mayor of Curepipe, allow merchants to "do more business thanks to the proximity of the station to Jan Palach and steady stream of people who pass through."

The case was brought to court through an injunction. Market gardeners and traders must pay certain transaction costs, challenging unfair competition Food Vendors, have succeeded in 2010. Meanwhile, still in Mairat of Michael Sik Yuen, the Municipality of Curepipe is committed to relocate hawkers and Food Vendors announcing the creation of a Hawkers Corner Food Court upstairs market. A project budgeted at Rs 3.5 million, which would be realized in the framework of Phase II of the renovation market. This new space, we recall, was intended to regulate the sale of food preparations in the city center and solve the problems of insecurity and congestion.

But with the freezing of project, merchants find themselves at square one. While calling some dealers "untouchables", the urban demand for health inspectorate and the Ministry of Health to take the necessary sanctions. "The Food Act is not respected here. First, these merchants have no space for washing vegetables, bowls and plates ... In addition, a foul odor emanates from certain areas, not to mention the presence of pigeons near the stalls, "says one. If the presence of Food Vendors do not mind the economic activities of the city, it concedes, "food must be prepared in the best conditions." "These are the same merchants who would be relocated to the Food Court. They have prepared food in adequate space and urban would have a place to sit and cool instead of thank you to the marks. "