Donald Ramotar’s vehicle clamped by parking meter agents

A BMW SUV, which is assigned to former President Donald Ramotar, had a clamp placed on its wheel by personnel employed by Smart City Solutions on Saturday afternoon.

The vehicle was at the time parked opposite the People’s Progressive Party’s Headquarters, Freedom House, on Robb Street, Georgetown where the former President was attending a meeting with other Party officials.
Although being told that the vehicle belongs to the former President, the personnel went ahead and installed the clamp. After the intervention of the former President, the clamp was removed.
It is believed that Ramotar parked his vehicle in a no parking zone, but there were no signs of parking meters in sight.
Public Relations Consultant for Smart City Solutions, Kit Nascimento later confirmed that the former President’s vehicle was parked in a no parking zone, but the decision to remove the clamp was as a form of courtesy to Ramotar, while nothing that he had no right to be parking in a no parking zone in any case.
Nascimento, however, told media operatives that Ramotar, Opposition Leader Bharrat Jagdeo, former Prime Ministers Samuel Hinds and Hamilton Green, among others, should provide a list of registration numbers of vehicles they intend to use so that some form of courtesy would be extended.