Public rage

Public rage in Georgetown continues to grow and expand as last Thursday’s massive demonstration shows, even as the government has finally been forced to intervene in the parking meter fiasco. But it is too little too late. Boat gone a’ fall. The demand is now for the rescinding of the flawed agreement between the city council and SCS.

The government faltered when it allowed the city council to proceed with the parking meter secret project, with charges that were outrageously high ‒ 37 per cent of the average monthly salary in Guyana as compared with a high of 13 per cent of the monthly salary in the US. After the meeting between the government and the city council,