Latest update February 10th, 2025 2:25 PM
Praise for the Town Clerk for being inhumane
Dear Editor;
A letter appearing in the letters column of the local newspapers recently purportedly authored by a Ranwell Jordan, a Justice of Peace, heaping praises on the Town Clerk of Georgetown, Royston King for not only being profoundly inhumane, but for showing an appalling disrespect for vendors in the city, particularly those who operate along Robb Street, was not surprising but very disappointing nonetheless.
One must understand that Jordan owes King a debt of gratitude for (King) awarding him (Jordan) a number of cleaning contracts recently around the city, including in Agricola where Jordan lives, and even before whilst Jordan was a City Councillor within the Georgetown Municipality, a clear conflict of interest and impropriety. Further when Jordan was a Councillor and Mayor he was allowed to have several of his close relatives including sons, daughters, nieces and nephews employed within the Council, an obvious case of conflict of interest
Shockingly, he then goes on to propose that the Minister of Communities was disrespectful to King for highlighting the fact that King’s actions were illegal, and without the permission of Council and the fact that the Town Clerk is but an administrator, like any other administrative officer, hired to carry out the decisions of the council. Something has to be wrong with Jordan to have come to such an absurd conclusion.
Does Jordan who used to go to those very vendors and ask for their votes for the national and local government elections really believe they should have had their livelihoods compromised by King in such an atrocious and evil way?
Does Jordan know that those vendors pay members of the City Constabulary every week to have Council clean the area which they do not? Does Jordan realise how fed up the vendors have become as a result of the constant shaking down by the constables for bribes and harassment by a certain big bully and company? Does Jordan know that they have formed themselves into a union united to protect and promote their common interests, but for which the ‘Mighty King’ fails to recognise or sit and negotiate with?
To make his missive even more bizarre, he then praises the current Mayor for supporting the Town Clerk in his wrongdoings and hopes that she gets another term in office to continue the fine work that she is doing. This must be the joke of the week. What fine work is he talking about? The corrupt parking meter contract? Her frequent sojourns overseas which are to no benefit to the citizens? Her constant attempts to depress and miniaturise the Deputy Mayor?
The shipping container tax? The giving of jobs and contracts to her relatives? It would seem as though Jordan is one of the imprudent proponents of making King and Chase-Green, the King and Queen of Georgetown, in a new monarchial type arrangement.
Sean Moniz
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