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People have been taxed to the limit and more

Feb 12, 2017 Letters

Dear Editor,
Due to the lack of perspicacity, the Mayor and Town Clerk of Georgetown have unwittingly created a new force, a new movement against bullyism, against corruption and against maladministration. This new group which they recklessly and idiotically labelled as aligned to a political grouping, consists of the widest cross section of the Guyanese society, of persons who are concerned about the future of our country and of persons who refuse to be intimidated by a few misguided persons at City Hall.
It is extremely foolish and arrogant of them to be so dismissive of this prominent group whose concerns include the clandestineness of the parking meter deal, with the contract still being held as a top secret, barring Councillors, senior municipal staffers and worst the citizens of Georgetown from seeing it, the non-adherence to tender procedures and failure to have a bidding process, the exorbitant parking fees and penalties to purported violators, the inequity of the sharing of the profits between the contractor and the city, the lack of vision of the city’s mothers and fathers, the incompetence of the municipal administrators etc.
The City Council is clearly hoping that with time, these busy individuals will stop protesting and just get on with their hectic lives, paying and allowing their staff to pay these forbidding rates having been beaten into the ground. Like every other untenable situation Guyanese have faced. But no, not this time. People have had enough. They have been taxed to the limit and more. And they hardly see any returns for these taxes they pay to City Hall. Unlike what Ifa Kamau Cush said they are progressives. They are not freeloaders; and they have the fortitude to control their own destiny. He must be speaking about the people at City Hall when he said “You all possess the mentality of slaves, indentured servants, incapable of generating wealth and building capacity,” With all of the taxpayer’s money that has to be remitted to Mexico from this deal, it is no wonder we have a foreign currency shortage.
Sambu Jacobus

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