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Parking meter contractor hires protestors
Yesterday a group of young people congregated in front of the Regent Street entrance of City Hall in a protest expressing their support of the controversial parking meter project.
The Group of youths displaying their placards.
When asked whether they were protesting on behalf of themselves or some other body, the youths boldly shouted “Safe City Solutions!” However they were later corrected about the true name of the company.
The group of approximately a dozen young men and women yelled slogans and displayed placards expressing their wish for the parking meter project to be implemented without further impairment. One of the placards directly addressed the Deputy Mayor Sherod Duncan; it read “Sherod Duncan, Shut up and let us work.”
Another read “Duncan, do your job and give us jobs! Support the parking meter project.”
According to the picketers the project will provide them with much needed jobs. It had been disclosed by Mayor Patricia Chase-Green and Chief Executive Officer of National Parking Systems, Ifa Kamau Cush, that although NPS and its partner, Smart City Solutions, will set up the parking meters, the council will be tasked with training and employing 100 Guyanese to maintain the system.
One young man speaking at the protest stated that “this project will help the young people and not only the young people but the entire Guyana in a very, very vital way.” The young man went on to plead that the higher authorities let the project pass so that they will have a chance at better jobs.
Another youngster said that the jobs would be good for youths who are home doing nothing. It is their belief that the chance at employment will allow them to elevate themselves.
A young woman, while hiding her face with a placard spoke out saying “I would love for this project to pass, so that young people could get jobs.” She continued, “If this pass, I’m sure 50% of young people can get jobs.”
Members of the group were equipped with pamphlets which sought to inform readers of the benefits which the parking system would bring to the city. The document evidently endorsed by Smart City Solutions boasted that the project will provide more jobs, reduce traffic congestion, better roads and safer streets for Georgetown.
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