Bridgetown Market is on

One of the signature Crop Over events is returning this year, though in a slightly smaller format.

Bridgetown Market, which has been a Crop Over staple for many years, was originally not planned to be part of the 2022 Crop Over season, however, according to President of the Barbados Association of Retailers, Vendors and Entrepreneurs (BARVEN) Alistair Alexander, this year’s event is very much still on, just on a smaller scale.

“BARVEN has embarked on staging Bridgetown Market this year… you know government was not holding Bridgetown Market, [however] BARVEN has decided it should be held seeing as Crop Over has returned.

“The NCF is backing us, and we will be having the Bridgetown Market on the 30th and 31st of July,” he said.

He added that though the event will be scaled down and will be mostly held in the organization’s outdoor market on the Mighty Grynner Highway, the two-day event promises to bring all of what Barbadians have come to love about Bridgetown Market over the years. “Bridgetown Market is a celebration of the vendors and the activity of vending, so we decided that we have the area, the BARVEN Outdoor Market, and enough space to stage an authentic Bridgetown Market, so that is what we are going to do.” (SB)