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New City Council, same old nepotism

May 11, 2016 Letters

Dear Editor,
Whilst stakeholders in Georgetown continue to await the much needed forensic audit at City Hall which is taking forever and a day, the looting and pillaging of the Georgetown Municipality continues unabated.
With the new Council sitting on the sidelines and cheering the Town Clerk, the Human Resources Manager and the Officers, there continue the hiring, promoting and rewarding of the handpicked, favored cohorts of the ‘Kingship’ and the vulgar spending of the citizen’s taxes.
Obviously, the Human Resources Committee and the Council have had little say in these recent appointments who are relatives or friends of other senior officers, and which signals that there no end in sight to the entrenched culture of nepotism at the Council. To confuse these hapless Councillors, there is the continuous transfers and movement of staff from one department to another whilst friends and family are being promoted and hired willy-nilly.
Similarly the acts of fiscal recklessness are also undiminished with the illegal granting of interest waivers continuing, along with the doling out of contracts without adherence to tender procedures going full steam ahead.
All of this is happening whilst the City’s coffers are running dry and the overdraft at the bank climbing to a staggering amount, which seems to be hardly any cause of concern to the new council, the Ministry of Local Government or the central government.
City Hall is the latest Ponzi scheme to happen in Guyana, and when they eventually run out of money that they are getting from the central government and from the interest waivers and fees, fines and taxes the Georgetown Municipality will either collapse (classic ponzi style) or depend on the central government for bailouts.
The Council’s wages bill is staggering and still climbing. When will the new Council review this? The rate of appointments, promotions and new hiring is frightening. When will the new Council bring an end to this? The doling out of contracts is unprecedented. When will the new Council commission the needed forensic audit?  Will the central government continue to allow King and his cabal to make Georgetown into a failed city?
Shanta Singh

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