Dear Editor,
I wondered from the day it was completed about the Parliament Garden and why it remains closed to the public. At first I couldn’t rationalize why then Minister Irfaan Ali would have it laid out and then padlock it from the public. Maybe it was the fact that Guyanese decided to use the site to stage protests against Parliament under the previous administration, or maybe it was the threat of the garden being overrun by vagrants; whatever the case, Mr Ali kept it shut.
Why it remains shut until now baffles me. I see two guards posted there on a daily basis and yet still it is shut. On several occasions I observed senior citizens staring in longingly to rest their weary feet, and yet, though it’s a public space, built with taxpayers money, with two guards, it is shut. Why?
Yours faithfully,
Dario Mcklmon