ST ANN’S BAY, St Ann —Vendors who have sold on the St Ann’s Bay campus of the Marcus Garvey Technical High School for the past six years staged a peaceful demonstration in front of the school on Wednesday, September 18, over what they say is unfair treatment by the school’s administration.

The vendors say that they rented shops on the school compound for $6,000 monthly, but are now unable to enter the property to sell their goods inside the shops.

The vendors told the Jamaica Observer that the school administration informed them at the beginning of the term that they would have to wait for a new contract to be drafted before they were allowed to continue selling on the compound.

However, they say that up to Wednesday of this week nothing else has been forthcoming from the school administration.

“We get a break in July and go for summer break; on the last week of August we come back to school to find out about everything,” Jacqueline James, one of the vendors told the Observer.

James said the vendors spoke to the principal and bursar and were told that it would take a week for the new contract to be done.

“This is the third week now and we keep calling the principal,” she added. However, according to the upset vendors they are yet to receive a response.

“They lock up everything for us in the shops; we don’t have no access to the shops,” James said.

The vendors said they went to the school on Wednesday to talk to the principal but that he refused to see them.

The Observer was unable to confirm this as the security guard on duty said he was told not to allow any media houses on the property.

— Renae Dixon