Carol Sooba confirmed as Town Clerk

After acting in the position for about seventeen months, Carol Sooba has been confirmed as Town Clerk of the City of Georgetown, Head of the Presidential Secretariat Dr. Roger Luncheon announced today at his post – Cabinet media briefing at the Office of the President.

Sooba was acting in the position for close to seventeen months, replacing former Town Clerk Yonette Pluck, who along with the City Treasurer Anthony Meredith, City Engineer Gregory Erskine and Head of the Solid Waste Management Unit Hubert Urling were in the latter part of 2012 sent on leave and subsequently fired following an inquiry in the functioning of City Hall. That investigation revealed financial improprieties on the part of these workers.

There were continuous efforts on the part of Mayor of Georgetown Hamilton Green and some of his councillors to oust Sooba whilst she had held the cap of acting Town Clerk.

Ministers of Local Government Ganga Persaud and Norman Whittaker however had continuously reaffirmed the ministry’s support of Sooba, expressing the view that the then acting Town Clerk was doing all within her power, with  support of some of her administrative staff to seek to ensure that the City was benefiting from effective, efficient, transparent and accountable management.