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Sep 14, 2016 Letters
Dear Editor,
When one reads of the perpetual demonstration of arrogance, deception, callousness and wrongdoing being propagated against the citizens of our capital by the present Town Clerk, Royston King, one can only wonder two things. A -why and for how long the authorities are going to allow him to continue to destroy our capital city and B – what is his real and ultimate objective?
The list of idiosyncrasies committed by King in just over a year since he was installed by the former Mayor who had the court halt their proceedings against him after he was arrested, criminally charged by the national police and hauled before the courts, is too long to publish in this letter.
However, to recall some of the more blatant ones we can easily call to mind the wanton destruction of the ‘Dread Shop’, the rounding up of the Water Street vendors and cramming them into the old Auto Supplies compound, the placement of roadside Barbers, Hairdressers, Manicurists, Pedicurists and Tattooists on the Mall under conditions that break the public health regulations of the very City Council, the creation of a ‘White Elephant’ car park on East Street between Middle and New Market Streets which no one uses, the eviction and subsequent overcharging of wholesale vendors on Merriman’s Mall between Orange Walk and Cummings Street to occupy some dog kennels they constructed, then the scandalous parking meter contract which he disgracefully signed and awarded to an unknown sole trader and, the wasteful spending and construction of a Presidential Park.
The question that needs to be asked is whether King has an agenda and is deliberately doing these heinous things to the poor people to discredit the President and Government of Guyana or is it that in his quest for fame and fortune, he could care less for the injury and discredit and disrepute he is causing the governing party, merely considering it collateral damage as he pursues his own ambitions?
James McOnnell
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