City Council delays ratifying parking meters suspension order

A majority of Georgetown councillors yesterday voted to allow the Mayor and City Council time to peruse a legal opinion before ratifying an order made by Minister of Communities Ronald Bulkan directing that the Georgetown Metered Parking By-laws be suspended for three months. In what acting Mayor Sherod Duncan has described as an historic push back against central government, APNU councillors including General Secretary of the PNC/R Oscar Clarke approved a motion which not only delays council’s decision indefinitely, but directs Town Clerk Royston King to forward to Minister Bulkan a legal opinion which states that his order signed on