Mission Statement

To maintain attractive marketing infrastructure in an effort to promote vending, entrepreneurship and encourage patronage, and to ensure that persons engaged in marketing produce do so in proper sanitary conditions, thereby negating the risk of health problems for the local population and elsewhere.

• To provide suitable and adequate accommodations for vendors, so that they can ply their wares/produce to the general public.
• To protect the consumer from unfair practices by ensuring the correctness of weight and measures for goods are fair and equitable.
• To provide appropriate meat and fish inspection service, ensure the public is protected from fraud and obtains a product fit for human consumption.
• To monitor the operations of all vendors, as well as market users to ensure that law and order is maintained.

• Livestock and food crop farmers
• Fisherfolk
• Boat owners
• Small entrepreneurs
• Market vendors
• Street vendors
• Meat plant operators
• Supermarkets
• Fish processors
• Meat shop operators
• Food caterers
• Government departments
• Research organisations
• General public

Public Markets in Barbados

Aberdeen Jones Center & Market

420-2366

Berinda Cox (formerly Oistins) Fish Market

428-7180 or 420-4545

Bridgetown Public Market 

431-0202/07

Cheapside Public Market 

426-4463

Conset Bay Fish Market 

423-1299

Eagle Hall Public Market 

436-6109

Fairchild Street / (Golden Square) Public Market 

426-5880 or 429-5311

Glebe Public Market 

228-0253

228-8552

Paynes Bay Fish Market 

432-6814

Six Cross Roads Public Market 

423-6243 or 423-9506

Skeetes Bay Fish Market 

423-3989

Speightstown Fish Market 

422-2912

Tent Bay Fish Market 

433-9964

Weston Fish Market 

432-0492

Contact Information

Markets Division

C/o Ministry of Agriculture

Graeme Hall Christ Church

Tel. No. 434-5000

Fax No. 228-5848

Senior Management

Mr. Henderson Greaves

Manager of Markets

c/o Ministry of Agriculture

Graeme Hall

Christ Church

Tel. 434-5033

Mr. Israel Kirton

Senior Superintendent of Markets

c/o Bridgetown Public Market

Princess Alice Highway

Bridgetown

St. Michael

Tel. 431-0202/07

Mr. Keith Henry

Manager, Bridgetown Public Market

Princess Alice Highway

Bridgetown

St. Michael

Tel. 431-0207

Mr. Gregory Payne

Superintendent of Markets

Cheapside Public Market

Cheapside

Bridgetown

Tel. 426-2552 or 426-4463