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Feb 19, 2016 Letters

Dear Editor,
When will this new government realize the tragic mistake it is making by giving the Georgetown Mayor and City Council hundreds of millions of dollars to spend? It is being mismanaged, misappropriated and misspent. Indeed it is just being used to fill the pockets of a few.
We now have one man well known by his nick name who has moved from moving around the municipal markets selling food to becoming overnight the biggest contractor in the city, a multi millionaire. Everyone knows his relationship with a senior administrator. This individual is given almost all the contracts to clean the city without bidding of course and with no prior experience.
The Burrowes Commission of Inquiry brought out clearly the corruption and the inept and ineffective management which have been permeating City Hall for decades. Well it has now gotten far worse. It now seems as though the central government has virtually taken over road building and repairs in Georgetown and this is in addition to the support it has been providing in solid waste management. In order to stop the graft at City Hall, I would suggest that central government takes over not just those but all contractual work.
There has been a lot of fuss made about the clean-up in central Georgetown, but what has happened to all of the suburban areas of the capital (greater Georgetown)? It is untouched and filthy as ever. Do the residents living there have to wait on this overnight billionaire to clean there as well? What has happened to the City Council’s workers?
City Hall claims that it has spent more than $131M to date as part of efforts to clean up the Capital City, I would believe that over a hundred million from that must have gone to the overnight billionaire as right now works underway in the vicinity of La Penitence market being completed to accommodate vendors who ply their trade on the road way is being effected by him. Works on the Merriman’s Mall, works in the Lacytown area in fact just about everywhere is being done by him. Could the Minister of Communities bring some fairness to this process as Hamilton Green seems unwilling or unable to do anything?
Riley Matthews

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