Name: Stabroek Market
Address: Georgetown, Guyana, GY
Telephone: +592 226 2411

Stabroek Market is a point of interest, located at Georgetown, Guyana. They can be contacted via phone at +592 226 2411 for more detailed information.

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Georgetown

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Added by Jopie, at 08 July 2016

Monday Open 24 hours
Tuesday Open 24 hours
Wednesday Open 24 hours
Thursday Open 24 hours
Friday Open 24 hours
Saturday Open 24 hours
Sunday Open 24 hours

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Eder Medina

13 April 2018

Local atraction but visitors need to be careful while un the area.
Anandi Premlall

18 March 2018

Daily market with everything you could want, including fresh produce, handmade crafts, clothing, and cooked food.
Veronica Rose

16 March 2018

It's a great location to get a variety of fresh fruits and vegetables. There's also a section of the market that has clothing,shoes,household items and so much more. It's a one stop location where you can find just about anything. The location is also in close proximity to public transportation via roadway or water because the Parika boat stelling is located behind the market. In general it's a fun location to visit.
Merlisa Lewis

23 February 2018

The market smells funky in different sections, especially where the meats are sold. It's crowded and not well lit. But there's a great variety of things sold in the market. All the food items you can think of, clothing, jewelry, shoes, accessories, household items etc.
Heat Cliff

16 February 2018

The Dutch returned to power in 1784 they began change much that British & French had done. They renamed New Town as Stabroek after a leading member of the company, and the recently build Fort le Jeune Dauphin as Fort William Frederick. They kept Stabroek as the seat of government ad both Kingston and de Kersaint had planned. In Berbice the planters who had received lands from English and French were made to give them up. Sad for the slave rebellion of 1763.

Before the coming of the Europeans to Guyana there were no towns. This was because the Amerindians never went in for commerce; that is to say, they never met in any one particular place to buy and sell goods. However, the development of trade and the need for markets has not been the only reason why towns and cities have grown up. Cities existed in part of southern Asia as early as 5,000 years before the birth of Christ and their early growth seem to have been linked with the development of agriculture. The cultivation of wheat and other cereals required a more settled way if life. The city played an important part in Greek civilisation also, not only as a centre of commerce and trade, but also as a small self-governing community, a city-state, where literature, and the arts generally, flourished. In the Roman Empire they were centres from which military and political control was exercised. After the collapse of the Roman Empire the city or town declined in importance in Europe. The times were dangerous, trade declined, and settlements tended to cluster around forts and castles for protection. With the return of more settled times town began to grow again as centres of reviving commerce and trade.

What determined the site of town? Defence was still important and many towns were built around a castle or similar military fortification. The top of a hill was more easily defended than a valley. A town had to be easily accessible by road or water for traders and merchants, and its wealth would undoubtedly be increased if it was also well sited as a port. As counties became unified there was a need for a single seat of government, or a capital city, easily accessible and near to the main centres of population and wealth. These were the kind of consideration which the Ditch had in mind when they thought about the doting of a town in Guiana. One of the first sites they proposed was cartabo point. This was where three rivers met, and so was easily accessible. As we have already seen, being some way from the sea it was also protected from hostile ships. It was also the centre of the early Dutch settlement.

In 1879 the foundation stone of the present stabroek market was laid;in 1881 the market was declare open by governor Kortright. In the end, as you have already learned, it was the French and not the Dutch who planned and started to build the first town in Guiana. Why they chose the particular site on which Stabroek was built was never explained by the French, but from what we have already learned about the growth of towns and cities we can probably give the answer. In the first place there was a fort on the site which was important for defence, and around the fort there were already spring-ing up the begining of a small town. The site was at the mouth of the river, which was deep at this point, so that it made a good port for ships coming from overseas. Two roads met at Stabroek, the East Coast Road and the East Bank Road, so that the site was easily accessible to traders and a convenient point for a market. At first, buyers and sellers met by roadside, outside Stabroek there were other little 'towns' and 'burgs', Alberttown and Cummingsburg. These were in time incorporation with Stabroek to form one large town.

NASTY and smell with no smile. This is a shanty town. This is the capital of Guy on knees. Guyanese are nasty infection. The people in this country are better dead and depopulated. High chemical agriculture food. Poor and nasty sanation. Worthless people for worthless dollar.
Claude Wilkinson

05 February 2018

It's very convenient for transportation and shoppinghowever security needs to step up
Indrani Ramjist

06 January 2018

It wonder shopping at stabroek market
Amerimechcan Guy-Engineering

19 December 2017

NASTY and smell with no smile. This is a shanty town. This is the capital of Guy on knees. Guyanese are nasty infection. The people in this country are better dead and depopulated. High chemical agriculture food. Poor and nasty sanation. Worthless people for worthless dollar.
Adel Uhri

01 December 2017

Great place to get all your goods house hold appliances & much more
Ryan Jackson

11 November 2017

Friday night market is the best if there can two nights in a week it will be the best
Vickic Braithwaite

05 November 2017

It's not your everyday market but it's where you can find anything. Even the hot stuff
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Deborah Solomon

24 October 2017

Historical building ,busy atmosphere and good for shopping
Hemwant Persaud

23 October 2017

This once well organized and clean market appears unkempt, unsafe and congested.
JelTaTech

20 October 2017

Lots of variety and the ever present rich diversity of the Guyanese culture
Aadam Abdool

30 September 2017

The market of all. And probably the best prices in Georgetown if you look a little
Bevaun Ragobeer

16 September 2017

One of the older sites you must visit if you are coming to Guyana for the first time. This market is always busy and has a sense of history attached to it. If you are coming walk light and in a small group of 2-3.
Dereck Lovell

05 August 2017

It's beautiful
Amerimechcan Guy-Engineering

05 August 2017

NASTY and smell with no smile. This is a shanty town.
Neide Mendonça

05 March 2017

I admired the place ,Sion i'll back again.
Abby Greene Bull

03 March 2017

Everything from produce to meat and fish to fashion to jewelry. One stop shopping at it's best in Georgetown.
Adrian Emanuel

11 January 2017

Memories of the good old days..
Bryce Caster

05 January 2017

Rowdy covered market. Great place to people-watch and catch a minibus.
Joakim Söder

15 July 2016

One of the must sees in Georgetown, this busy market will keep you occupied for a while. You'll find a bit of everything here, and plenty of cheap restaurants around the area as well. Be careful in this area by night, other than that it's a very interesting place to visit, to get to know the people and the produce of Guyana more.