Parking meters

The Movement Against Parking Meters (MAPM) is calling for the 'start over' of the process involving the Parking Meter Project with a feasibility study, tendering and all other proper processes applied. According to the Movement, some…

APNU+AFC is now using KERFUFFLING as dark art to trick people. The recent request to the M&CC to suspend the parking meter contract is a trick, hoping to buy time for the protests to disappear. But the people cannot be fooled so easily.…

The Movement Against Parking Meters (MAPM) has expressed its dissatisfaction and disgust that in spite of Central Government’s suspension of the parking meter by-laws, Smart City Solutions (GeoPark), continues to bully citizens in the…

The Government is expecting that the Mayor and City Council and Smart City Solutions will heed its advice on the 90 days suspension of the parking meter project. However, the administration is still to inform the stakeholders of their…

By Delicia Bailey Despite reports of the three month Cabinet recommended suspension to the controversial parking meter project in Georgetown, there is still some uncertainty among motorists and other stakeholders on the way forward.…

By Stacy Carmichael-James The reported $12,000 monthly for minibus parking in the capital city to be implemented by City Hall has raised numerous questions for the United Minibus Union (UMU) President Eon Andrews. Andrews…

Even with the threat of rain clouds, persons turned out in their numbers to support the weekly protest by the Movement Against Parking Meters (MAPM) in front of City Hall on Regent Street, Georgetown. One representative of MAPM, Chris…

The Georgetown Chamber of Commerce and Industry (GCCI) on Tuesday joined the call for the revocation of the Parking Meter contract and urged that its colleagues in the business community and other stakeholders should maintain their protest…

By: Mohabir Anil Nandlall, MP. Attorney-at-Law Public protests and public opinion continue to mount against the implementation of parking meters in Georgetown. At the same time, the City Council, through Mayor Patricia…

By Stacy Carmichael-James The Movement Against Parking Meters (MAPM) is in the process of legal recourse with regard to the controversial Parking Meter Project which is being ‘forced’ upon the citizenry by the Mayor and City Council…