Georgetown Mayor needs to get off the high horse of politics

Mar 09, 2024 Letters

Dear Editor,

Mayor Alfred Mentore needs to get off the political platform of partisan politics and into the realm of good governance, as he oversees the affairs of the city. The peace and prosperity of Georgetown should be his primary focus and not in other avenues for which he has no authority. But, from all appearances he is still stuck in the silly politics of PNC and PPP and not in the business of addressing the real issues of the city. For too long this has been the problem plaguing the capital city and its management.

Mentore is in the moribund position of politics and the grand obsession of control, The PNC’s idea of “control” of the city and it being a stomping ground for the party has consumed him, so, in the latest imbroglio of who owns – or to use The PNC’s terminology controls – Thomas Lands, is his main concern. He is not concerned with the dilapidated, putrid state of the capital city, and as such, he has absolved himself of the affairs of the city. His actions are a representation of the decadent party to which he belongs, they are cocooned in a web of negatives and underdevelopment.

At the present moment, his preoccupation is to own and control those lands in The Kingston Waterfront; this is done against repeated warnings from The Guyana Lands and Surveys Registry, that those lands are the property of The State. But the narrow myopic politics of The PNC has so blinded Mentore’s eyes that he cannot see nor think clearly, he would rather waste huge sums of money into a frivolous and vexatious case against The Government, instead of having money wisely spent improving the lives of the citizens of Georgetown.

When you have small minds at the helm, tells you why things go wrong and development cannot take place. But Guyana will still move forward regardless of these obstacles that stand in our way.

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