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Sep 14, 2016 Letters
Dear Editor,
From the advent of the APNU-AFC Coalition in would appear that the City council is not managed by all its elected officials and its statutory procedures. The name of Royston King keeps repeating itself, over and over again, each time through independent acts of hostility and aggression against citizens who need guidance rather than spasms of egomania, the presumption has to cease that there is a ‘Republic of City Hall’ independent of the livelihood of those who trade in this town. King may very well be the extension of a partisan group who directly or indirectly are poised as ‘Agents of the PPP at City Hall’ through their actions that are continuously creating public embarrassments, which by now ‘John Public’ has come to recognize as a character flaw of the Republic of City Hall. Perhaps it’s time that both the Ministries of business and communities pay serious attention to this state within the state of Guyana.
This recent Alexander Street to Bourda Street onslaught was prompted by a legal complaint made by a certain Robb street businessman, against vendors’ untidiness. What is curious is what entitles this business to the jurisdiction of an entire economic block-Alexander to Bourda Sts? It was at the insistence of another businessman that the stalls of the Bourda St. Vendors were destroyed, again without legal procedures adhered to. Addressing Staborek Market square was necessary, but its handling was undoubtedly disastrous, etc.
The fact is that because I am a self employed small business operator I can emphasize with what the disruption of the flow of business can have on fragile economies and on the very health of persons, Royston King and his compatriots at the ‘Republic’ are salaried employees and lack any empathy with this reality, incapable of comprehending that things are very, very difficult for the small business economy today. Guyana for the last decade has hardy had an economy. This is where the Ministry of Business comes in, to direct the ‘Republic’ towards meaningful strategies.
Why? Because it is likely that changes in the employment sector will lead to growth in the small farming population that will require more display and trading space, and there are already indications of serious problems concerning the dangerous premeditative contamination of fruit and vegetables for economic expediency that will need expertise beyond the ‘Republic’s’ capacity, that is, when the authorities in Agriculture do wake up or are awakened, it’s time to shed the small minded predator nature of the HIPC Republic of City Hall and get them to serve rather than what they have become, I am wondering, where is the voice of the New Councillors?
Barrington Braithwaite
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