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City Mayor echoes concern over bank employee’s death

Sep 17, 2010 News

“I suppose the advice we have to give to our young people is to let go, but that would mean giving evildoers the upper hand,” said City Mayor Hamilton Green as he commented on the shocking demise of Demerara Bank employee, Sheema Mangar.
The 21-year-old woman was mercilessly mowed down last week Friday as she attempted to retrieve her Blackberry cellular phone from a thief who after committing the act boarded a car which ploughed into her. The incident occurred in the vicinity of North Road and Camp Street. An eyewitness account revealed that the woman was dragged some distance away. Having sustained life threatening injuries, including a ruptured spleen, Ms. Mangar passed away the following day while a patient at a private city hospital.
“As Mayor and a citizen of Georgetown I am extremely pained by this turn of events which suggests that there is a very serious moral decline in our society and to be reminded of words in Shakespeare’s play — we have turned to brutish beasts…”
According to Green, “there is no way that efforts can be made to discuss the improvement of the city, unless there is an appreciation for the environment in which we are operating and there is the potential for good and evil.
It is my hope, and it always has been, that we grapple and grasp the potential for good and eschew the potential for evil; these are the two things that characterise human existence from antiquity.”
In extending his sympathy to the family of the deceased woman, Mayor Green noted that the incident was especially stressful for him as he has daughters around Sheema Mangar’s age range.
“I have had images of what happened to her happening to my own children,” Mayor Green said. According to the chief citizen, over the past few days Guyana has been plagued with some unhappy news of murderous events with the most traumatic being that of Ms. Mangar’s death.
At a press conference on Wednesday which saw the attendance of representatives of the private sector, which has promised to collaborate with the municipality in helping the city entity to fulfil its mandate, Rabindra Rambarran, speaking on behalf of the private sector, said that “the city reflects the standard of all Guyanese…” However, he cautioned that at the moment, the current state of the city is not a true reflection of all the citizenry of Georgetown. “I think that we as Guyanese, concerned citizens and more so citizens of Georgetown should demand that the environment reflect our true standard.”
In this regard the private sector at its last council meeting had agreed that the private sector will continue to engage the Mayor and City Council of Georgetown, Rambarran disclosed. He revealed that the intent is to engage the municipality in a strategic way in order to achieve a common objective.
“We will come onboard, providing that we have a set of guidelines or Memorandum of Understanding that we can agree on, even if it means we just come and spend even four months working with the City Council. We must agree on what we are trying to do and we must do it in a systematic way.”
According to Rambarran, the private sector sees itself as part of a partnership with the municipality and the Government as well, in bringing the state of the city to an acceptable level.

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