Latest update April 18th, 2025 8:12 AM
Presidential Park or Pergola Monument?
DEAR EDITOR;
I would like to know the exact reason why the Georgetown City Council is refusing to rehabilitate and maintain the “Pergola Promenade” the national monument located on the Merriman’s Mall.
This was the construction that was financed by the six institutions under the umbrella of the Cooperative Financial Administration during the eighties, and which was dedicated to the sterling performance of the late Shirley Field-Ridley, a former minister of the government and former wife of the immediate past Mayor of Georgetown.
For the last twenty one years during the Mayorship of Hamilton Green, this memorial was left to become a haven for vagrants of all sorts, and was subjected to all types of solid waste deposit, including human excrement. Was this deliberate? Is there some sort of agenda to denigrate the memory of Shirley Field Ridley? Does someone wish to have her contributions erased from our memory?
I have noticed that in the recent sprucing up and major construction activities going on at the Merriman’s Mall, this structure seems to have been deliberately ignored by the ruling cabal at City Hall, with bush and other unsightly garbage can still be seen desecrating this edifice. Rather than rushing off to build a Presidential Park shouldn’t the Town Clerk have considered rehabilitating this monument first?
Nadine Jerrick
Similar Articles
THE BLUNT OF THE DAY
Sports
Features/Columnists
A Different Silence
Peeping Tom… Kaieteur News- Good Friday in Guyana is not what it used to be. The day has lost its hush. There was a... more
Collaborative Government–Private Sector Action Imperative for a Resilient Trade Future
By Sir Ronald Sanders Kaieteur News- On April 9, 2025, U.S. President Donald Trump announced a 90-day suspension of the higher... more
Weekend Cartoon
