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Feb 03, 2018 Letters

Dear Editor,

According to reports in the local press, the proposed date for the election of Mayor, Deputy Mayor, Chairpersons and Vice Chairpersons of Committees of the Georgetown Municipality has been arbitrarily shifted from the end of last year to March 15.

Quite amusingly the current Mayor who has served for the last two years as mayor, announced her availability for reelection for a third term on the sidelines of a community event in Alexander Village last Sunday. Indeed even more hilarious was her suggestion that she did extremely well in her previous two terms and thus deserves a third term.

Now to get serious about a matter as significant as this, the Georgetown City Council needs to show the citizens of Georgetown, where in the law, a Mayor is allowed to run for a third consecutive term. This is just simply proscribed and someone needs to tell the Mayor that.

But even if this were permissible, it would be an absolute travesty, a charade, a parody and most of all an affront to all the citizens of Georgetown, for this lady to be returned to the political leadership of the city.

It is simply shocking that this lady would even consider running again. Is there no one else amongst the 29 other souls there, with any superior leadership skills to her? That would be so sad, so sad.

Let us look at some of the wonderful achievements for a moment, which includes the most scandalous and shameful parking meter contract, the monthly luxury travels to the furthest corners of the globe costing the city millions of dollars with no tangible returns for the citizens, the inhumane slaughter of animals at the Abattoir during her two years, handing out contracts and jobs to her relatives and friends, clear acts of nepotism and cronyism, complicity in an incident of a lance corporal who is accused of having sex with a “detained male juvenile” at her City Hall, and which wasn’t reported to the police, the Child Protection Agency and the parents of the juvenile, of covering up a twisted sex act by a senior member of the Engineer’s Department and a member of the Human Resources Department,  and the most recent scandal concerning the Bel Air Park ground which she is seeking to convert to upscale housing for herself and cohorts.

During her two terms, the Mayor and City Council of Georgetown became a cesspool of lawlessness and depravities of the lowest order.

Could someone else be given a chance to run our capital city?

Magagula Jackson

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