NASSAU, Bahamas –The iconic Nassau Straw Market opened for the first time in nearly 20 months yesterday, The Nassau Guardian reported on Tuesday, November 23, 2021.
The facility was among the non-essential businesses that closed on March 23, 2020, in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. While other businesses opened in recent months, the Straw Market remained closed.
During a press conference outside the Straw Market Monday morning, Minister of Works and Utilities Alfred Sears, who has ministerial responsibility for the facility, said it was a “matter of priority” to reopen the straw markets.
“The money that they make, those profits are not repatriated to another country,” he said. “That money is spent right here educating their children, spending it on their mortgages, spending it supporting their families and so on. So this is the measure of the reopening of the economy.”
Sears said roughly half of the 360 vendors who work in the Straw Market downtown are expected to work daily. See complete article in The Nassau Guardian at https://thenassauguardian.com/straw-market-reopens/
