Corruption needs to be exposed at City Hall by a forensic audit

Nov 15, 2016 Letters

Dear Editor,
Once again the Georgetown has embarked on an exercise of colossal time wasting and massive public deception. And by this I refer to the preparation of its estimates of revenue and expenditure for 2017. Up until now the 2016 budget has not been presented nor made public.
What has been made public is a fancy budget speech but no facts and figures. But this seems to be in keeping with a trend developing with the Mayor and Councillors of the City of Georgetown and that is, making all of its documents which should be public record, into highly classified documents.
The notorious parking meter contract is still a top secret document and so is the 2016 budget. In fact all of their accounting records are top secret as they have not been audited and qualified for over a decade.
But the time wasting and deception have to do with the usual fancy plans and programmes; this time with the Town Clerk talking about a Green Economy, ensuring efficient and effective solid waste management, enhancing the Engineer’s Department to deal with the increasing high-rise buildings, designing cycling lanes etc.
All pipe dreams and poppycock! When all is said and done all that will happen is that the Council will continue to be insolvent and penniless in 2017as it usually is. It will continue to farm out all of its services so that the senior administrators could continue to get massive kickbacks, the Engineer’s department will continue to draw plans for citizens and then turn around and pass them themselves turning a blind eye to the massive building code violations in the city.
The payroll will continue to bloat with the employment of more friends and family, and corruption and graft will continue to thrive. This is of course if no forensic audit is held an exercise that will allow for the capturing and prosecuting of all the crooks at the top.
Debra Gibson

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