(In honour of the late SN columnist Arthur Allan Fenty, who authored a column on Fridays in this newspaper for 30 years, Stabroek News will be running some of his earliest contributions. This column was first published on November 23, 2001).
I will be brief, terse and to the point. We have to commend highly, the Mothers in Black. For much more than one year they have been doggedly persistent in keeping to the forefront of national attention, the dire dimensions of road traffic mayhem and its consequences in this small-sized society of limited human resources.
If their weekly Friday midday vigils outside Parliament have been admirable, even inspirational, they have however had a seemingly minimal effect on the Government in that at one time they were told by a Minister that the current legislation dealing with traffic offences was “adequate” and only needed to be enforced. Nonsense! I agree with the bit about enforcement but in these changed, lawless times how could any senior knowledgeable official defend all of the current legislation as adequate?