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City Hall must end this costly, conspiratorial contract

Nov 12, 2016 Letters

Dear Editor,
Today I witnessed the main reason why the Georgetown City Council is always broke and bankrupt. Whilst standing outside a popular hotel after having a meeting with a foreign delegation on Main Street, I observed the arrival of two gangs from the Mayor and City Council comprising of weeders and sanitation workers. Soon after, I overheard the men retorting in loud and animated tones that the work that they had been brought to do was already done by a contractor commonly known by a certain nickname.
The major accusation by the Council’s workers was that they were left to stand there without work and to idle all day, while this contractor ‘Brother’ was being given all the work that they were employed to do; which they doing for all the years. And more egregiously, he was being paid hundreds of millions of dollars whilst they were receiving their paltry salaries weeks late each month due to the bankrupt state of the Council.
Surely, the Council must know that they can’t ‘eat their cake and have it’. If they are going to continue to pay their special contractor hundreds of millions of dollars to clean and maintain the city, then they should terminate the services of their own sanitation workers. Of course the only logical reason for pursuing such a course of action would be to fill the pockets of the favoured person and as a consequence line the pockets of the well known incompetents at City Hall through kickbacks from this highly favoured contractor. This would be a heartless and brutish act, but it is not beyond the capacity of the greedy and merciless administrators at the Council.
Of course what needs to be done is to get rid of this contractor. He is bleeding the Council dry Get rid of him now that the clean-up for the Jubilee is over, and let the Council’s workers do the maintenance seeing that the municipality is obligated to pay their workers anyway. And meeting their wages bill would no longer be an issue seeing that they would save hundreds of millions of dollars with the dismissal of this favoured contractor.

Mark Roopan

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