BREAKING NEWS: City mayor resigning due to poor health
Georgetown Mayor Hamilton green is set to submit his resignation soon, due to ill-health, a well-placed City council source told INews Guyana on Saturday.
Greene, who is suffering from an undisclosed ailment, has been making frequent trips overseas to seek medical attention, the source said.
INews Guyana understands that the city mayor, after diagnosed sometime back, had indicated to close associates on the council, that he was contemplating quitting, since the “pressures” of the job, were causing his health conditions to deteriorate even faster.
The source, who asked not to be quoted, revealed that the mayor has been “seriously ill in recent months” but has been clinging to hope and “fighting this illness “to ensure that he continues to fulfill his mandate as mayor.
However the source said that green was forced to leave the country two weeks ago to seek emergency treatment since he was “seriously ill”.
This recent spate of illness, the source said, was what forced the mayor to consider resigning, a position according to the source “he is very inclined to take”
Green has been mayor since 1993 when the last local government elections in which his now defunct Good and Green Guyana (GGG) party won the municipality.
Green’s wife is also ailing and is currently based in Trinidad and Tobago, where she is being treated.