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Come clean with the public on the parking meter project
DEAR EDITOR,
There is much talk touching on the proposed parking meters for Georgetown, and I am making a few comments, seeking clarification. I think it is in the interest of the proponents of the project to come clean and be frank with the public.
1. Who are the signatories of the agreement on behalf of the City Council?
2. What is the name of the Company that entered into the agreement with the Council?
3. Who signed on behalf of that Company?
4. Would the meters be geared for half-hour intervals, or more or less?
5. Would there be slots on the meter where the money will be inserted?
6. If there are no slots, then one can only assume credit will be purchased and placed in an instrument.
7. When one goes to park, when will the credit commence?
8. Can a vehicle park there for umpteen minutes and the driver not activate the instrument?
9. Is it a correct assumption that a foreign company/individual will come to Georgetown, take over the streets and parking spaces, and collect money which he/she will repatriate overseas?
10. What is the basis for the City Council to get 20% of the foreigners’ collection?
11. When the foreigners send their funds overseas they will of course convert same to very possibly US currency. Are the Government, the Council, and the citizens prepared to accept the devaluation of the Guyana dollar in the process?
13. The President has issued call to overseas personnel to come and invest in Guyana. The call is successful. We have the first — aided and abetted by four members of the City Council.
Guyana is great for business.
Kishore Deonarine
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Some of the questions posed are already answered in the various news reports on this fiasco.
Now putting this matter in the classification of (quote)
“The President has issued call to overseas personnel to come and invest in Guyana”, is a long stretch of that call because there is a ministry which manages such ‘come back and invest’. This did not follow that path!
The parking meter scandal does appear personal to the cronies at City Hall working in collaboration and apparently for reasons known only to themselves. Note that
1. the matter was not tendered
2. the approval was not by Council majority vote
3. Council was not kept fully aware of the clandestine activities
4. the mayor is behaving like a high school teenager with expressions that highlight the limited intelligence of being politically astute by mentioning social media, family interactions and the usual teenage expressions of a high school girl who thinks herring of herself.
I hope that the fiasco ends as any fiasco should end…
in total collapse.
Parking meters in Georgetown, where all government business is conducted, where a substantial part of the working population works, can be deemed to be the height of stupidity.
I expect the ingenuity of my smart Guyanese folk to come into play and make a mess of this silly, clandestine and tainted action by the big-four at City Hall.