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The scandals abound
Dear Editor,
Is the Georgetown City Council beyond redemption? How much longer must the citizens of our capital city be subjected to the daily vicissitudes of City Hall? There is hardly a day that passes by without one learning of some outrageous, egregious and extremely corrupt activity being exposed. One can only imagine how much else goes on there without detection.
We have just learnt that the Town Clerk of Georgetown has granted permission for a vendor to construct a two-storey building in the Stabroek Market Bazaar, without the knowledge or consent of the Markets and Public Health Committee of the Council, without the knowledge and consent of the full Council, and without the permission and consent of the National Trust. This building and its environs is a heritage site. This is just another bizarre episode in a string of uncanny occurrences ongoing at City Hall for the last two and a half years.
It must be clear to the youngest child that the Town Clerk of Georgetown, is above the laws of the land. In fact, he would seem to be the law, as none of his predecessors were able to get away with a fraction of what he has.
He has stumbled from one fiasco to the next, in an unending series of debacles, whether it was the unlawful parking meter initiative, or the Bel Air Park, Lamaha Gardens and Subryanville playgrounds, to the garbage contractors crises, to the Abattoir hydraulic pump and stun gun predicaments, to the juvenile rapes and unlawful killings by members of the City Constabulary, to the unsavory treatment of vendors, to the Kitty Market and Stabroek Market Wharf calamities, to the Merriman Mall scandal and the list goes on and on.
The heartbreak of all of this is that it seems impossible to have this gentleman sent on his long outstanding accumulated vacation leave let alone disciplined for his many indiscretions. It seems as though the citizens will have to endure the hardship of living with this millstone until his retirement comes around.
Why is it that dozens of Commissions of Inquiry are being held at various entities in the country and not at the Georgetown City Council which is fraught with corruption, scandals, exploitation, venality, and vice.
Sincerely,
Nadine Jerrick
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