Charges should be filed against the Town Clerk

Oct 20, 2017 Letters

Dear Editor,
A popular American politician once boasted that he could stand on New York’s Fifth Avenue and “shoot somebody” and still not lose voters. Well in Guyana I am convinced that the Town Clerk of Georgetown could break any law, violate anybody’s rights, commit the most heinous crimes, breach all rules and nobody would touch him.
How is it that the Town Clerk could so patently mishandle the appalling case regarding the juvenile that was statutorily raped by a Lance Corporal of the City Constabulary and yet nothing happens to him? Those in authority over the Town Clerk need to ask him a number of questions including the following.
Why did he re-employ the Lance Corporal after he was dismissed a few months before for similar sexually deviant behavior? Why did he keep the Lance Corporal on the job after receiving the report of his misconduct since August, placing him at remote locations to keep him out of the view of the public but where he could have attacked other juveniles, and not interdict him?
Why did he not fire him a few months ago when he got the report? Why did he not call in the police immediately like he did on the previous occasion, but instead waited for two months and only after much pressure to do so? Why did he not contact the Ministry of Social Protection’s Child Protection Department as he was required to? Why did he have an interview and confrontation with the victim and the perpetrator which is against the law and then withhold that information from the investigating Legal Affairs and Security Committee?
Why did he tell Councilors at their last statutory meeting to disregard what is published in the media, since it cannot be taken as facts, that nothing has been proven and that the matter is one of mere allegation, when he was in possession of facts to the contrary and was able to fire the constable the very next day?
An investigation needs to be urgently undertaken to ascertain whether the Town Clerk is guilty of condoning or trying to cover up a situation that impaired the morals, the mental and physical well-being of a child.
But then again if they cannot even get the Town Clerk to proceed on his accumulated leave, it is very unlikely that they would get to subject him to an investigation. But the police, the child protection unit or the child’s relatives should file charges against the Town Clerk.

Anu Bihari

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