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Another sad day in the life of the City Council

Oct 05, 2017 Letters

Dear Editor,
Last Monday was another sad day in the wretched lives of the poor workers of the Mayor and Councilors of the City of Georgetown, and these poor workers to which I refer to as the lower tier of the workforce, not the ‘big wig high fliers’. Having not been paid on time for yet another month, and owed retroactive sums for years now, they were forced to trek down to City Hall for answers, and trek they did because most of them could not even afford a bus fare, only to witness the ‘King’ roll up chauffeur driven in his air conditioned multimillion dollar sports utility vehicle surrounded by bodyguards like royalty. How insensitive.
Giving them a lecture he told them that he was trying to keep bread on their tables. What a major concession, whilst he could afford to put champagne and caviar on the dining tables of his multiple homes. He even had the audacity to suggest that he may have to let some of them go if the financial situation does not improve. Can you imagine that? Rather that threatening the lower level of workers who do real work, should the necessary retrenchment not be ‘Last in, first out’? Should they not get rid of the nearly 200 workers that they hired or promoted in the last two years in the clerical and administrative area?
Americans use the phrase ‘Another day another dollar’ to say that everything is ordinary, same routine. At City Hall the phrase is ‘Another day another new staff member’. And these new employees who are mostly friends, relatives and church pals of senior functionaries of the Council are not being hired as sanitation workers, grave diggers or drainage workers, but are instead given high paying, senior and cushy positions within the municipality, with hardly anything to do, but to deplete the Council’s treasury at an alarming rate.
City Hall is at rock bottom. They are bankrupt, nepotism and cronyism is the order there, gross mismanagement and financial malfeasance abounds, the city is dirty and depressed, is it not time to say enough is enough? How much longer the citizens of Georgetown will be forced to endure these types of derelictions at City Hall, how much longer must the workers be subjected to this type of maladministration? Can’t urgent changes be made to the administration at City Hall?
Nadine Jerrick

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