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City Hall being deliberately sabotaged – Mayor Green

Oct 05, 2011 News

 

The Georgetown Municipality is being deliberately sabotaged by Central Government as part of a wider propaganda blitz, says City Mayor Hamilton Green.
The Mayor was at the time responding to remarks made yesterday by President Bharrat Jagdeo during a press conference where he revealed plans to continually render support towards the improvement of the capital city.
Mayor Green further asserted that “you can do nothing without money and that is what they are doing, they are stifling us so that they can come to our rescue. They are using the old imperial attitude of handing down to us favours and some of the time it is them who owe us…”
The City Mayor further made reference to the Interim Management Committee which was installed in 1994, and well endowed by the People’s Progressive Party regime, an administration which according to him has since failed to give allowance to the municipality to expand its operation.
According to the Mayor “every proposal that I have advanced to the Government has been rejected…They are deliberately sabotaging the city for us to look bad.”
While accepting that there is an undeniable need to improve the management capacity of the city, Green emphatically insisted that President Jagdeo has over the years continued to micro-manage the city and has been neglecting to communicate with him.  This practice, according to the Mayor, is emulated by even the Minister of Local Government, who has responsibility for the municipality.
“The Council is not flawless, it is not without fault or weaknesses, but the bottom line is you can ultimately do nothing without money and they are depriving us.”
Speaking at his press conference yesterday, the President revealed that road works in the city have attracted in excess of $500M, compliments of Central Government.  In fact, he revealed that for the past 15 years, it was the central administration and not the Georgetown Municipality that has been funding such initiatives.
“Almost every single road has improved, the traffic lights and everything, and we just even bought some new garbage trucks for them, and hopefully that would make a difference.”  He further pointed out that with the introduction of the landfill site (at Haags Bosch) residents of South Georgetown have been relieved from an unsightly and unhealthy situation.
“…Thankfully the people in South Georgetown could be relieved of this thing that was without any (mechanisms) like the other one which could leak the water out…it was a dumpsite in the centre of the city, and unfortunately we had to continue with it for many, many years with our Government too. But now, thankfully, we have relieved people.”
The Head of State’s disclosure yesterday came in response to queries relating to the state of the capital city and the possibility of support from Government.
“I think we have to do this…we will assist the city, this is our city, it is not Hamilton Green’s city, and anything good will have to come without him being involved frankly speaking,” the President asserted.
He further lashed out at the City Mayor, pointing out that “everything you say to him ‘that can’t be done or you have to do it the right way or we did it 30 years ago’; these guys kill every good initiative.”
However the President noted that there are “some excellent people in the City Council some of whom have goodwill, are passionate, and could work with the Council, thus efforts will be made to make the difference with Government’s support”.
“We don’t have a choice, this is our city, we can’t say that it is run by Hamilton Green or the PNC (People’s National Congress), so we don’t pay attention to it. So this is why we have pumped so much into the city; all the roads that are being done now in the city… if you go to West Ruimveldt or almost all over the city, guess who is funding that?”

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