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Stabroek Market is widely known as the biggest market location in Guyana, where many sellers go to make a living. The market has attracted a great variety of business owners, whose wares range from jewelry to clothes to produce. Stabroek Market is filled with customers every day and is known for its
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Georgetown Town Council designated the current location of the market on Water Street, officially recognizing it as a market despite the fact that it had served such a capacity for quite some time. The market was designed by an American engineer Nathaniel McKay, and constructed by the
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Stabroek Market area is easily the busiest such place in the city, always bustling with people and activity. It is a central hub for taxis and "minibuses", and also for ferries that transport people and goods from all towns and villages along the
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Stabroek Market is located in the middle of what
Guyanese people call "Town", where many other major businesses surround its tall and recognized building. Stabroek Market is one of Georgetown's main attractions and is renowned throughout Guyana.
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structure was completed in 1881 and may be the oldest structure still in use in the city. The market covers an area of about 80,000 square feet (7,000 m). and houses a wide variety of items for sale.
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Stabroek Market is generally not a high crime area, but robberies do occur from time to time. In 2011, a grenade attack at
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