Namdevco to compensate expelled Macoya vendors
Monday 12 April 2021
NAMDEVCO has been ordered to compensate a vendor and his mother for expelling them from the farmers’ wholesale market in Macoya because they arrived ten minutes late to pay the licence fee for their stall for December 2019.
In a judgment delivered on Monday, Justice Ricky Rahim held that Namdevco s decision to refuse to accept the rent for ten stall spots from Kel Ali and his mother Lou Ann Gonzales was unreasonable.
He ordered the agency to compensate the two, which will be quantified by a Master, and also quashed the decision.
Ali and his mother said they had been selling at the farmers’ market for the past 12 years. On November 29, 2019, when they went to pay the $440 fee for December, they were refused because their employee arrived ten minutes late.