Latest update April 24th, 2026 12:40 AM
This is unprecedented and unusual
Dear Sir,
The Minister of Local Government, Mr. Norman Whittaker continues to interfere with the operations of a duly elected City Council. According to reports, this time, rather than allowing the City Council to decide what its wants to do with the 2013 subvention- $20M- given to it by the government, the Minister instead of the Mayor, purportedly signed off that subvention.The Minister of Local Government has no business signing off internal correspondences, such as the one for the subvention, for the Georgetown Municipality. It is highly irregular for a Minister to sign off Council’s subvention. It is unprecedented and unusual. We know of no other Minister of Local Government who did that.
As if that was not enough, the money was used to buy old second-hand trucks. In a media report, the Deputy Mayor said that the Council did not authorize the purchase of the trucks. If that is true, then the question is who gave permission for the purchase of those old defective trucks?
I hope that the Mayor and his Councilors will call for an immediate investigation into this very strange occurrence, at a cash- strapped Council that cannot even collect the garbage off the streets of the city.
Mark Johnson
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