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Feb 07, 2017 Letters

Dear Editor,
There are a lot of hot and cold utterances made by officials in high places of our country’s administration and this only serves to create more conflicts in the minds of the masses and evidently will result in confusion. When we are fed with information by one official then another official comes forward and gives a slant on the same matter, it would be a deterrent of confidence in the people who are supposed to be guided, directed and led by these statements or releases. Why this is consistently so, only those who are making the releases can tell.
The matter that is currently a source of much controversy is the parking meter project. We understood that when the standing minister with responsibility for Local Government signed the relevant papers into law then the parking meters would become legal and by law those who orchestrated this wrong upon the city of Georgetown demand that citizens pay for parking.
Now as I open the morning dailies the masses are being made aware of another side of the same matter, By-Laws are still awaiting AG’s review and Cabinet approval. If this statement is correct then what authority are the people, who are tasked with enforcing the pay for parking, operating under? I have witnessed wheels of vehicles being locked and this I understand attracts a fine of eight thousand ($8,000) dollars, if then as is published Cabinet has to give approval after the AG’s review, how come the public is not being educated as to how to handle the impounding of vehicles.
I read with some disdain the appeal by the tsar of the city council to use the parking meters around the city and he explained how the city will benefit from this use. Now sir, why wasn’t this done even before the negotiations and contract signing? Was consultations done? Were there meetings on a broad and wide scale magnitude or is it a matter of being wise after the event? I believe if things were done professionally, decently and with a principled approach then people would have been educated along the lines of parking meters and they would been able to offer inputs. But no! Despite opposition from every quarter they have insisted on saddling citizens with another burden.
I don’t believe a proper study was done and this why I have the notion, fifty (50) dollars plus vat for fifteen minutes might not seem like a lot but imagine a parent stopping to allow his/her child/ children to do a photocopy for school work, and I mean one single copy, the copy which cost ten dollars, but for a ten dollars business that parent will have to pay the minimum of fifty dollars plus vat for fifteen minutes parking, the photo copy of an educational material suddenly jumps by 400%. I wish that somebody gets wise and dump this additional burden on the Guyanese people.
Ivan John

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