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Vendors who were owed bail monies which they paid last May after they were arrested and charged for loitering aback of the Stabroek Market are finally being reimbursed.Two of the vendors who were reimbursed, Rudolph Thorne and Trion Park.Yesterday the City Constabulary began paying the ten vendors the $8000 each that they were owed for the infraction they had allegedly committed.One vendor said that he was very relieved to finally receive the reimbursement since the matter had been pending for months. The peeved vendors had said that they were being taken on a royal runaround to retrieve posted bail monies.They even recounted having a verbal confrontation with the Town Clerk, Carol Sooba, on the issue.One of the vendors,Leonard Fournette LSU Jersey, Rudolph Thorne,Desmond Howard Michigan Jersey, said he was told by Sooba,Cheap Jerseys, “If you want your money go in the office and tek it out”.However, Sooba had refuted the claims of the vendors and alleged that one day she was verbally abused on the issue,Kobe Bryant Lower Merion Jersey, in the presence of her body guard, by ‘a very disrespectful man’.She said that she is aware that the Constabulary had problems with bail money, as in excess of $2M was stolen by a constabulary officer who later committed suicide to evade facing the consequences of his actions.Yesterday, the acting Town Clerk told Kaieteur News that after a lengthy meeting with the Councillors,Rueben Randle LSU Jersey, it was decided that the money would be repaid to the vendors.She said the money was taken from the City Treasury while investigations continue into the sum that was stolen.Two vendors, Rudolph Thorne and Trion Park,Magic Johnson Michigan State Jersey, reported to this newspaper yesterday that they had already uplifted their cheques.Ten vendors attached to the Stabroek Market were arrested and charged for loitering by City Constabulary officers on May 24,Kentucky Wildcats Jerseys, last. At the constabulary they were placed on $8,Cheap Jerseys From China,000 bail,Dwyane Wade Marquette Jersey, each. |
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