Sooba calls for Mayor to “gracefully bow-out”

-says he seems too tired to function as Mayor of Georgetown

ACTING Town Clerk Carol Sooba on Monday last made a call for Mayor Hamilton Green to “gracefully bow-out” as Mayor of Georgetown since in her estimation, he seems “too tired to function as Mayor.”

Sooba’s remarks came after City Hall’s Statutory Meeting was brought to an abrupt end by the Mayor on Monday last, seeing no real progress in addressing the concerns of the citizens of Georgetown.
The meeting which did not last for more than thirty minutes was to see eight scheduled agendas being presented before the Council on Monday to address several pressing issues. However, after the correction of minutes and the approval of one agenda, the meeting was subsequently adjourned.

“I don’t know why he [the Mayor] doesn’t bow out gracefully, because it seems to me like he’s too tired to function as Mayor…” –Acting Town Clerk

As such Sooba is contending that this is a slap in the face to the citizens since their “businesses are once again left undone.”
“There were eight agendas and they have not been dealing with the businesses of the citizens… it is the citizens of Georgetown who are left to suffer” she said, stressing that: “He [the Mayor] has been receiving his duties and allowances which have been paid to his bank account.”
Sooba also bemoaned the fact that the Mayor has been: “telling the media that he has not been receiving travelling allowances and so” when she has ensured that they have been paid through his bank account. “
“In the Municipal and District Council’s Act, there is no provision to provide him with a chauffeur, a driver, fuel and overtime. The provisions laid out in the third schedule and in another section of the law provide what his office should have per annum and he has been receiving that. He wants more though” the Town Clerk lamented.
As it relates to his premature departure at the Meeting, Sooba noted that: “He wanted to leave early and just found an excuse.” She continued that: “the Mayor feels he is in authority, higher than the law of this land, so he continues to do as he pleases.”
She further explained that as the acting Town Clerk and the person solely responsible for the administrative body of City Hall, she is never made aware when the Mayor is leaving the country. She said: “…most of the time also, the Mayor is not in this Jurisdiction, he’s out of the country and when he’s out, he does not indicate to the Town Clerk that he’s out, he just disappears.”
“And whenever he’s here, he spends alittle time, disappears, comes back, make some media appearances, disappears again, ridicule the Town Clerk, ridicule the bodyguards, ridicule the Government and mislead most of the councilors” the Acting Town Clerk concluded.

extracted from the Guyana Chronicle