Crab dance brings mud at the City Hall

Jun 29, 2016 Letters

Dear Editor;
It was quite hilarious but yet still infuriating to learn through the press of a discomfort the Georgetown Mayor and Town Clerk have as it relates to persons discussing with their children the ‘Parking Meter Fiasco’ that their parents are involved in.
I must say that in normal circumstances maybe such positions may have been justifiable and legitimate. However, the Georgetown City Council is a far from a normal place. There is a popular Guyanese saying that is very applicable here – ‘nah guh crab dance if yuh nuh want yuh skin get mud’.
If the ‘Gang of Four’ along with some of the more questionable Councillors that have returned from the old batch and some allegedly corrupt senior officers of the municipality wish to have their relations protected from the vagaries of City Hall, then they should not have them and their other relatives, being given illicitly, cleaning contracts, choice stalls in the municipal markets and cushy jobs with the Council.
So long as the hierarchy at City Hall continues to practice such blatant acts of nepotism and cronyism, then their relatives cannot be insulated from the censure and reproach of Councillors and citizens, as they are part and parcel of the skullduggery of the Council.
It is time for the members of the ‘Fantastic Four’ to stop pretending to be pictures of moral rectitude and clean up their acts, in order to save the city. The President is asking this of them.
James Mc Onnell

1 thoughts on “Crab dance brings mud at the City Hall”

carl veecock June 29, 2016 at 12:43 am

So it was an artful speech by Pressee DG, but….. hehehehehe…he assumed that he was speaking to a sensible intelligent trio or quadro.
Typical politics in Guy…we think and believe that all we are doing is right and above board even if big big holes appear.

I have no problem with political patronage jobs as it is an intrinsic part of a party being in power. Just don’t put a do-do in a job that far exceeds the mental capacity of such do-do person.

When the patronage moves on to the area of finances and the awarding of contracts, I draw the line. Every such thing has to be transparent and made public, and the minister under whose portfolio the City Council falls, has to intervene when bombastic expressions ‘ we shall not be moved’, and impolite .verbalizations and insults flow in ridiculous style.

Both the Town Clerk and the Mayor seem to have lost sense of reality, and appear to be behaving as if no one
can stop them.

Time for intervention.