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Now we understand why Mayor Green was so brutish towards Sooba as Town Clerk

Oct 07, 2015 Letters

Dear Editor,
There is an old Guyanese proverb that says ‘Moon ah run till daylight ketch am’, which means that you may think that you are getting away with your misdeeds, but one day you will be caught.
Many Guyanese could not understand the uncultured and as we in Guyana would say ‘common’ behaviour of Mayor Hamilton Green in his interactions with the previous Town Clerks. Indeed as a woman, I found his attitude to the immediate past Town Clerk Ms. Carol Sooba to be downright disrespectful , prejudiced and shocking.
But having read the recent front page story of the Guyana Times, which exposed an intention by Mayor Green to inappropriately retrieve monies that he and his wife had to pay in outstanding property taxes, and which he paid in the first place only because of the firmness and diligence tells the whole story.
Which other part of the world could the chief citizen or his family not pay their taxes until it amounts to over ten million dollars and still remains as Mayor? Then after reluctantly paying it out of necessity due to the fact that he was selling the property and cashing in, tries to have some illegal motion tabled by his cohorts in Council to exonerate him from his financial obligation. If he had any sense he would have brought forward the amnesty period to when he was selling the property instead of now.
The complete irony of this situation is that for the last two decades, Mayor Green has been complaining of how cash strapped the Council is, all the while not paying their taxes, and worse has been calling on citizens to pay up and honour civic duty.
If Mayor Green is allowed to get away with this, then ever citizen ought to have their interest payments refunded just like him.
Now one understands why Mayor Green was so brutish towards Ms. Sooba as Town Clerk, as she was standing in the way of him getting his hands on over ten million dollars that he believes he was exempt from paying in the first place, and which he now wants to illegally retrieve after profiting from the sale of the property.
Nadine Jerrick

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