Dear Editor,
The letter writer has made a compelling call for City Hall to act with regards to vendors and vending (SN May 2), one of many such calls. The core issue in this vendors’ matter can be summed up thus: the wrong was allowed to fester, nurture and became permanent on the landscape until it became a right, a right for vendors to put down and take up spots and places in full view and knowledge of every one, all turning a blind eye and looking the other way. Now it has become a monster only to be quelled by court orders. And these are coming fast and furious, and still no plan or course of action to deal with the issue.
NDCs should note the point raised in the letter about vending and unsightly shacks sprouting up across spaces in communities some even permanent. My point about a wrong festering and becoming a right while the authorities idly allow this. The vendors have to earn and live. So with no immediate end in sight the vendors/vending problem will not go away. As one columnist puts it ‘the politicians seeking to control the City Hall’s purse, will do whatever it takes for those vendors’ votes’ (GT April 30). And so we go…life rumbles on in dear Guyana.
Sincerely,
Shamshun Mohamed
