Duncan protests against parking meters near Bishops’, Ptolemy Reid centre

Deputy Mayor Sherod Duncan standing next to a parking meter outside the Bishops’ High School yesterday.

Deputy Mayor Sherod Duncan yesterday protested the installation of parking meters in front of the Ptolemy Reid Rehabilitation Centre and the Bishops’ High School.

Duncan who has been a vocal critic of the highly controversial project spent his lunch hour protesting the action of Smart City Solution (SCS). Duncan gained the attention of dozens of passersby who vocally supported him. He stood on Carmichael Street holding up his placard which read “Parking meters burdensome!”

He told Stabroek News that he decided to protest because the company contracted to install the parking meters did