  A study of meson-baryon systems with total strangeness -1 is made within a
framework based on the chiral and hidden local symmetries. These systems
consist of octet baryons, pseudoscalar and vector mesons. The pseudoscalar
meson-baryon (PB) dynamics has been earlier found determinant for the existence
of some strangeness -1 resonances, for example, $\Lambda(1405)$,
$\Lambda(1670)$, etc. The motivation of the present work is to study the effect
of coupling the closed vector meson-baryon (VB) channels to these resonances.
To do this, we obtain the $PB \rightarrow PB$ and $VB \rightarrow VB$
amplitudes from the t-channel diagrams and the $PB \leftrightarrow VB$
amplitudes are calculated using the Kroll-Ruddermann term where, considering
the vector meson dominance phenomena, the photon is replaced by a vector meson.
The calculations done within this formalism reveal a very strong coupling of
the VB channels to the $\Lambda(1405)$ and $\Lambda(1670)$. In the isospin 1
case, we find an evidence for a double pole structure of the $\Sigma (1480)$
which, like the isospin 0 resonances, is also found to couple strongly to the
VB channels. The strong coupling of these low-lying resonances to the VB
channels can have important implications on certain reactions producing them.
