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The Mayor and the President

Sep 20, 2009 Letters

Dear Editor,
I am an American citizen of Guyanese origin who left Guyana about 25 years ago. Despite the many years since I left, I still read the Guyanese newspapers everyday to keep abreast of developments and follow with great interest the political situation in Guyana.
I am not a member of the PPP or any other political party in Guyana.
It is with great dismay that I read about the garbage situation in Georgetown and the non-functioning City Municipality under the current Mayor.
This is the appropriate time to once and for all solve the city’s problems by removing the most incompetent, backward thinking Mayor ever of Georgetown, Hamilton Green, who is severely retarding the development and transformation of Georgetown into the clean, modern, efficiently functioning 21st century capital city of a new Guyana, that is firmly on the road to development and progress under the skillful leadership of Mr. Bharrat Jagdeo.
Mr. Jagdeo got it right and hit the nail squarely on the head when he said that Mr. Green belongs to a different era. Mr. Green’s mentality is one of mendicancy and dependency, like those sub Saharan dictators who are constantly begging western nations for handouts, only in this case it’s the national government to which Mr. Green is always holding out his outstretched arm with a tin cup in hand.
It has never occurred to the mayor, it is his responsibility to effectively manage the finances of the city.
It is his responsibility to ensure that citizens pay up their taxes on time and in full and to put sanctions in place to ensure they do. In Chicago where I live, failing to pay one’s property taxes is a very serious matter indeed and will promptly result in a lien placed on one’s property. Mr. Green should stop blaming everyone else but himself for the mess the city finds itself in.
Until the Guyanese opposition parties can muster leadership with intellect, intelligence, dexterity and shrewdness that Mr. Jagdeo displays consistently, they will not and should not be taken seriously.
Mike Rahaman

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