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A huge constabulary force yet the markets are always burglarized
Dear Editor,
I believe it would be extremely difficult for the Mayor and Councilors of the City of Georgetown to explain honorably to the citizens of Georgetown, how it is possible for the Council to maintain such a huge staff strength of nearly a thousand workers who are handsomely rewarded with nice cushy salaries, while our capital is in such a dilapidated, dirty, dark and antediluvian state?
To add insult to injury, in addition to the mammoth workforce, the Council has also farmed out most of its services at a huge cost to contractors with very little returns.
In the past there were ‘Sanitary Inspectors’ from the Council that visited each and every property in the city to ensure that each property owner maintained their properties in a manner that adhered to the city’s public health laws and expectations. What did the Council do? They re-designated these persons with fancy titles such as Environment Health Officers and Environment Health Assistants, the end results being hardly any property is visited.
The Council has masons, carpenters, plumbers, electricians, tinsmiths etc. in a General Works Departments, but nowadays hardly any bridges are built and the existing ones are only repaired when they collapse, almost all of their municipal buildings are in a ruinous state, and the Kitty Market is taking forever to be rehabilitated.
They have a Constabulary with well over a hundred persons, yet the markets are routinely broken into, persons are regularly robbed, three card men habitually turning their tricks on the pavement etc. In fact the only thing that they seem to be doing right is providing bodyguard and residential protection to the Mayor and Town Clerk.
They have a large retinue of weeders, tree trimmers, drainage workers grave diggers etc, but just look at the Cemetery? Maybe the plan is to make it into a tourist attraction where persons can go on a rainforest adventure in the jungle of that burial ground. But seriously, the Council needs to have a thorough and independent human resource audit done of its distended staff structure. Each employee should be interviewed and stock taken of what they do every day, all day long. There is simply too much featherbedding, nepotism, redundancy and cronyism going on there.
Sean Moniz
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