I’ll not allow anyone to drag my name through the gutter

I’ll not allow anyone to drag my name through the gutter – Mayor Chase-Green

Jul 02, 2016 News

Mayor Patricia Chase-Green

Mayor of Georgetown, Patricia Chase-Green on Tuesday, quoted William Shakespeare to members of the Council. “He who steals my purse steals trash and he who steals my good name steals it all.”
She continued, “I will not allow anyone, Councillor or other, to drag my name in the gutters.”
This was in reference to the controversial Mexico-Panama trip that she and three other City Hall officials recently undertook at the invitation of the parking meter company, National Parking Systems (NPS)/ Smart City Solutions. The three other City Hall officials on the trip were Town Clerk Royston King, Finance Committee Chairman Oscar Clarke and Councillor Junior Garrett.
“I have been here since 1994. I have never been called in any form of corruption or anything and they say I’m defiant because I said if you have any information on that take it to the police, but I will continue to say that.”
She reiterated that the Mexico-Panama trip was tabled at a past Statutory meeting and noted that after the team’s departure, persons took the opportunity of alleging corrupt dealings and dragged her name around.
Chase-Green said that it is unfair that within three months of this new Council, of which she is the Mayor, those individuals should cast allegations of corruption.
She furthermore stated that if anyone has a problem as a Councillor, they should deal with it at the Council instead of going to the media with “all sorts of things”.
The Mayor noted that the media is not the place for answers. She said that maybe “You’d get some support from the citizens, but you have to get your answers from the Council.”
Speaking about the reported questioning of Town Clerk Royston King’s teenage daughter by a city Councillor, Chase-Green said that it is “unacceptable for any Councillor to play a CID Detective to investigate into the Town Clerk or any Councillor’s personal life.”
She stressed that to “Invade the Town Clerk’s personal space, his family, his teenage daughter? Come on! How much worse can we get?”
The Mayor continued that after questioning the Town Clerk’s daughter, the individual not getting a satisfactory answer, asked the teenager not to mention to her father that she was questioned.
Chase-Green added that it is unethical and highlighted that as she said at the Statutory Meeting, “The Town Clerk will be taking the necessary actions to address this issue.”
She noted that the best course of action would have been to question the Town Clerk directly or “To write a letter to the Town Clerk and as is decreed by law; the Town Clerk is bound to give an answer.
“I will not sit as Mayor and condone such actions.”

5 thoughts on “I’ll not allow anyone to drag my name through the gutter – Mayor Chase-Green”

carl veecock July 2, 2016 at 2:15 am

This Lady Mayor appears to think that she is in High School and is responding like a teenager when whispers are bandied around.
Of what import is to her is the reported enquiring of the Town Clerk’s travels on apparent council business?
Why has she to babble publicly and cast aspersions on an unnamed councilor as being nosey on the travels of the Town Clerk?
Petty and infantile it would appear to be.

Anyone with a little sense of dealing with an important matter that is binding for many years, would reasonably take such action as would make sense to all concerned persons, the moreso as that person would not be around till the expiration of such binding.
Any person with a little sense would know that serious dealings should be conducted in such manner as would not raise suspicions and unease.
Who signs a contract for a service then later says ” hay!… show me how good your service is! ”

‘Where ignorance is bliss
’tis folly to be wise’
Keith Williams July 2, 2016 at 7:25 am

Give me a break please. You would have been right at home in the PPP, because your attitude and outpourings throughout this issue suggest that you have copied their playbook and are following the script line by line.
1. Pepie July 2, 2016 at 4:52 pm
  
  Keith I don’t agree. I am against the Deputy Mayor heading to facebook before first following normal protocols to get the answers he seeks. Social media should be the very last place once all avenues for information afforded by the bylaws are exhausted.
ROOP KUMAR PERSAUD July 2, 2016 at 8:24 am

Chase- Green emphasized that she was in the city council since 1994. Then all the lawlessness which occurred on the city’s paves and streets does not happen overnight. She was a part of that. And now she wants a free flowing traffic in Georgetown to be effective overnight.
Cotton_Candy July 2, 2016 at 3:48 pm

Is this Hammie wife? This is my question and I will not comment any further.