{"id":16528,"date":"2024-02-13T17:36:17","date_gmt":"2024-02-13T17:36:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/?p=16528"},"modified":"2024-02-13T17:36:19","modified_gmt":"2024-02-13T17:36:19","slug":"linden-mayor-proposes-amnesty-for-vendors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/linden-mayor-proposes-amnesty-for-vendors\/","title":{"rendered":"Linden Mayor Proposes Amnesty for Vendors"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n\n<p><strong><em>By Jacquey Bourne<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Linden Mayor Sharma Solomon has advocated for an amnesty period benefiting market vendors during Wednesday&#8217;s statutory meeting of the Town Council.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mayor Solomon emphasized that a significant portion of the council&#8217;s revenue is derived from the municipal markets. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He proposed offering concessions to vendors during the proposed amnesty period, slated for March and April.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>During the meeting, Town Clerk Lennox Gasper announced plans to introduce Mobile Money (MMG) to facilitate residents in paying their rates and taxes more conveniently. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mayor Solomon expressed support for this initiative, believing that MMG payments would streamline the process.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Additionally, Mayor Solomon addressed several other key issues. He highlighted the common complaint of insufficient street lighting during his community walkabouts. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To address this, he revealed plans to allocate funds for purchasing lights. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Furthermore, he disclosed that part of the $18 million subvention would be allocated for acquiring a mini excavator and road building materials to enhance infrastructure development.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Regarding Linden Town Week activities, Gasper proposed utilizing the animal pound compound for parking. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>However, Mayor Solomon expressed concerns about potential opposition from animal rights activists. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He tasked the Economics Committee with evaluating the proposal and making a final decision.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The proposal for an amnesty period reflects Mayor Solomon&#8217;s commitment to supporting local vendors and fostering economic development in Linden.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Jacquey Bourne Linden Mayor Sharma Solomon has advocated for an amnesty period benefiting market vendors during Wednesday&#8217;s statutory meeting of the Town Council. Mayor Solomon emphasized that a significant&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":16529,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[366,350],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16528","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-development","category-news"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16528","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16528"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16528\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16530,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16528\/revisions\/16530"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16529"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16528"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16528"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16528"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}