Vendors have hesitated to accept a Tourism Ministry invitation to operate from the approved Pointe Seraphine duty-free shopping complex amid COVID-19 concerns, citing logistical and other considerations. Instead, the vendors would like the Vendors Arcade and the Castries Craft Market where they currently operate to become COVID-19 certified. 'We want the vendors to make some money but as you can imagine the cruise ships will not agree for passengers to just go to the Vendors Arcade which is an open space where everybody is assembling. So we are saying to the vendors - we cannot control that space but we
