Dem digging up de parapets!

Nov 11, 2026 Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists, News

(Kaieteur News) – Dem boys trying to understand this government. Every time dem turn around, dem got a new idea how to solve a problem. Now dem decide that Georgetown got a traffic problem, so dem start digging up de parapets to widen de roads and, in the process, create better parking.

Dem boys watching and wondering whether anybody in de Ministry ever stop to think why so much vehicle deh in de city in de first place. Every Tom, Dick and Harry converting residential property into commercial premises. Today is somebody house. Tomorrow is a boutique. Next week is a supermarket. Before you know it, somebody convert a bedroom into a barber shop, de verandah into a pharmacy and de living room into a Chinese restaurant.

And every one of dem businesses got customers, employees and vehicles. But nobody got parking!

But that ain’t all. Some government offices got so much staff driving to work that dem alone could fill up half de street. By 8 o’clock, dem employees done park up every available space. When members of de public turn up to conduct government business, dem have to circle de block like dem looking for a lost relative. Dem boys wondering whether government offices now operating a policy where employees get free parking and citizens get free exercise. You going to pay your taxes, renew a licence or collect a document, and before you reach de counter you done burn half a gallon of gas looking for somewhere to park.

Some offices got so much staff driving that if you count de vehicles outside, you would think dem holding a motor show instead of running a ministry. So, what happen? De government decide that de easiest solution is to take away de little space residents got in front of dem houses. Dem digging up parapets, widening roads and moving boundaries. Pretty soon, if dem continue, de only thing left in front of some houses will be de front door.

Dem boys got a suggestion. Why not put an embargo on converting properties in strictly residential neighbourhoods into commercial establishments? Let businesses operate in commercial zones where parking and infrastructure can be properly planned. And why not examine parking arrangements at government offices so employees don’t occupy every available space? But no! That would require planning, regulation and enforcement. Is easier to send out a bulldozer and tell residents that dem parapets got to go.

Talk half. Leff half.

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