In defence of Carol Sooba

May 10, 2013 Letters

Dear Editor,
It has been a great indictment on the Georgetown public and in particular newspaper readers not to comment on the harassment the Mayor and his clique are conducting against the acting Town Clerk, Ms Sooba.
The Town Clerk resisted giving the Mayor, Mr Green, a hefty subvention of nine million dollars of City funds to pay the taxes owed on his wife’s property. The basis of her resistance to the Mayor’s demand was that it was illegal and corrupt. She advised Mr Green that he should secure the approval of the Minister of Local Government. Except such approval was secured, she would be the one who would be charged for the illegal transaction and pulled before the Courts, not Mr Green.
The various political parties are saying nothing about the corruption, including Mr Green’s party.
Mr Green, according to the Town Clerk, calls regular meetings of the staff during working hours, holding up the work of the Administration and inconveniencing the public. These meetings are invariably useless and of no consequence and have no result.
Mr Green ordered one such meeting on “the restoration of Georgetown” shortly after he had had a similar meeting a few days before. The Town Clerk, as an administrator, could no longer countenance this skylarking.
The acting Town Clerk was able to save the sum of $83,000,000 during the nine months she has been serving, a truly astonishing achievement in a continuously loss-making entity. Instead of thanking the acting Town Clerk, the Deputy Mayor, is indicating that the Town Clerk should have wiped out over a billion dollars of debt Ms Chase-Green and her clique had accumulated over the years.
The Minister of Local Government and the various political parties should stop Mayor Green and his Deputy Ms Chase-Green from carrying on their disgraceful comedy.
F. Gibbs

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