devils in trinidad

{Charlotte}

Last week, we finished making our slides based on the report we wrote. The PPT contains about 50 slides, which is far longer than we expected, but we indeed have much to say about the project. As our work going on, I realized that there are more issues within the market than I expected. At the beginning, I only observed the sanitation, security, illegal vendor, and size issues of the market. As we gathered information from vendors, customers and market administrators, more and more complex issues appeared. For example, the vendors complain that some vendors leave their tents outside even when they do not sell goods, which provide sheds for vagrants who leave garbage behind. We also saw the relation between these issues. Vendors’ business is closely connected with the aisle width. Customers complain that the aisles are not wide enough to hold the large population during the busy hours. As a result, some customers buy groceries from the illegal vendors outside instead of coming into the market, which harms the business of the legal vendors. We also find out that the difficulty of illegal vendor issues is due to the market size. If the police try to legalize the illegal vendors, there is no space within the market to accommodate them. Thus, only after the expansion of the market can we see the improvement of the illegal vendor problem. Though the report and PPT are quite long, I am glad to identify more issues within the market, observe the complexity of them and look for solutions.