Dear Editor,
The letter writer has made a compelling call for City Hall to act with regards to vendors and vending in a letter to the local press on May 2; and this is 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 become permanent to 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, to be quelled only by court orders; and these are coming fast and furious, and there still is 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 shacks even becoming permanent. This reinforces my point about a wrong festering and becoming a right while the authorities idly allowed it.
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 put 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
