What City Hall says are its efforts to regularize vehicle parking in Georgetown and to otherwise bring a greater sense of order to a hopelessly congested and disorganized capital may well be clashing with some of the operations of city traders, Georgetown Chamber of Commerce and Industry President Lance Hinds told Stabroek Business earlier this week.
This newspaper understands that some of the parking-related regulations and protocols which City Hall now seeks to implement are impacting negatively on the traditional trading arrangements of businesses, a circumstance which Hinds says has resulted in complaints to the Chamber by a number of businessmen.
Most of the complaints, it seems, have to do with the Council’s enforcement of parking regulations that interfere with the offloading and in some instances the efficient delivery of goods to customers. Hinds, who insists, that attempts to bring a sense of order to the capital is long overdue says, however, that enforcement must take account of the sensitivities of the business community and of the need for consultation in cases where decisions must be made that create logistical challenges for the trading community.
Hinds told Stabroek Business on Wednesday that arising out of approaches made to the Chamber by business houses, he, along with other members of the Chamber, will shortly be making a demarche on the municipality in order to arrive at a modus vivendi that will meet the requirements of both City Hall and the business community.
