Some NDCs are not working in the best interest of the People in the Community

Oct 11, 2019 Letters

DEAR EDITOR,

The Kaieteur News of Thursday, 3rd October, 2019 on Page 11, under the caption ‘N.D.C. Chairman being investigated’ paragraph five reads, “The N.D.C. Chairman said that he indeed took the images off of the wall but never threw it on the ground. He said he placed the images that were framed on a cupboard and left. His reason that his actions were premised on the fact that the Government is unconstitutional and there is no need for the pictures to be there.”
During my tenure as a Councillor of the Region Two Regional Democratic Council 9 R.D.C.), I was also a member of the Works and Agriculture Committee, a Statutory Committee of the R.D.C. The monthly meetings of this committee was held in the office of a man and during my seven consecutive years as a member, he always had two former Presidents, Dr. Cheddi Jagan and Janet Jagan, photographs high on the wall in his office, although both of them were already dead.
This man and I had and still have a good relationship, so I asked the question where is Mr. Hoyte and Mr. Burnham and Mr. Chung but he would smile but never answer.
There are certainly times where you get the impression that some of these Neighbourhood Democratic Councils (N.D.C.s) are not working in the best interest of the People in the Community and by extension of this Coalition Government, what they often do is to undermine all efforts as pertaining to development, so as to make the administration look bad, instead of carrying out the works in a timely manner from subventions, from Government and from Rates and Taxes received from Tax Payers.
I can remember that a Local Government Minister of the PPPC Government stated that he would be happy if an epidemic can break out in the City of Georgetown so as to emphasise the incompetence of the Hamilton Green’s Mayorship. Now think of the meaning of that statement, and simultaneously that of the action of this N.D.C. Chairman. The Minister of Communities has got to be careful in dealing with those Chairman of the N.D.C.’s whose mindset is the same of similar.

Archie Cordis
Former Region 2 Councillor

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