Ramotar, Sooba to be blamed for state of G/town- Mayor

As hundreds of Guyanese flocked Parliament buildings to witness President David Arthur Granger take a

public oath to begin his first term in office. Georgetown Mayor, Hamilton Green, was also part of the celebrations and is positive that the new Government will bring improvements to Georgetown.
The Mayor contended that the current degraded state of Georgetown’s Municipality is to be blamed on former President, Donald Ramotar, Acting Town Clerk, Carol Soba and the former Minister of Local Government Norman Whittaker.
Mayor Green now says that he and senior staff have scheduled a meeting for Monday, to discuss the state of the Georgetown municipality.
It was only in March that a section of the Stabroek Market wharf collapsed smashing a stall. No one was injured. According to stallholders the roof had been in a dilapidated state for some years.
A recent visit revealed that no repairs have been carried out on the wharf since the roof collapsed. It was also noticed that another part of the roof is on the verge of collapsing. This situation, Mayor Green said, is quite alarming as these collapsing roofs pose a threat to the wellbeing of persons traversing and conducting business in that section of the market.
On October 30, 2014,  a meeting organized by members of the Georgetown Mayor and City Council (M&CC) to address issues affecting vendors occupying sections of the badly dilapidated Stabroek Market  Wharf, was cancelled by Town Clerk (Ag), Carol Sooba.

However, the acting Town Clerk in a recent interview said that vendors in that section of the market were warned to remove from the area. She said that vendors were served with written warnings to remove for their own safety from the deteriorating section of the market.
However, the warnings that were sent by the Administration of the City Constabulary were ignored, she said. She added that proposals were made to relocate the vendors to other stalls, but these were not being utilized.
“Some of the vendors are stubborn, and are not concerned about their own safety, so they chose to remain there,” Sooba said.
Contrary, to Sooba’s claims, the Mayor had said that resources are not available to repair the dilapidated wharf. Further, the Mayor stressed that decisions made by the Mayor and Council are being challenged by the Acting Town Clerk.
The alleged poor management by the Town Clerk was said to be the “road block” to the rehabilitation.
Several stallholders at the Stabroek Bazaar had recently complained about the market wharf which is now home to many drug addicts. It was only three weeks ago that bandits broke into two stalls and carted off over $2M in cash and grocery items.
The recent break-ins are becoming habitual; this is according to the market vendors. They are adamant that the Council is clearly taking no interest in the market. The vendors noted that the market constables have neglected to carry out their duties. They are also furious about the guards who never see or hear anything.
The vendors are claiming that the only activity undertaken by the Municipality is the collection of stallholder’s fees.
In the meantime, the vendors are of the belief that their stalls will continue to be invaded if the Constabulary continues to neglect them.

One of the biggest waste there is in Guyana...dat is Green

LGE will decide,he should retire dunno why he still

hanging on.

@Django, you know why he's hanging on. Another teef man feeding at the teat of the public. He needs to be sent packing like the PPP.

That is correct,LGE will send him packing,i hope

APNU+AFC don't select him for their candidate if they

do,i will back the the other party candidate,GT is a

different place,Mark should contest.

Georgetown was always under the PNC rule.   The mayor was always responsible for the city.  He received millions of dollars from the Government.  What happened to the Money?  where are all the AFC coolies who criticized the PPP for mismanagement?    Let me hear you pig face talk....

LGE???

Seems like PPP did not care about GT

Goathead, the PPP pumped millions into GT and the money was stolen by you pigs..

I did not call you any name...don't call me any name!

That wasn't for you.  I meant the pigs..   sorry.

Yuh lucky he did not call you Ms Piggy.

 

Rama, Show some respect for the Admin!!!!!!

You called the admin a goathead. If you're going to get banned, go out the right way. Call him goatshit. Go ahead now....do that and he'll respect you. hurry up.

You fellas acting like I said Hammie should stay on the job...I said he needs to go

He received millions of dollars from the Government.  What happened to the Money? 

 

Rama, you are actually indicting the PPP/C government and you consider them to be an ally and enabler in the mismanagement of the Mayoral governance of Georgetown. If you give money to an organization would you not want to see accountability and audit it? So why are you asking where is the money? The PPP/C knows where the money went. They give it. They should be slapped silly for giving taxpayers money to a Mayor and don't know what to do with it. Remember that the PPP/C got some smart economists in Jagdeo and Ashni Singh. So stop berating the PPP/C and keep quiet at their irresponsibility and criminal negligence of taxpayers money.

Rama blaming the PNC for teaching the PPP how to thief . He should go and have a word with Jagdeo's buddy Corbin.

Agree. PPP longest serving Maya needs to go.
Camp street gated community residence is the best place for him

I totally agree. He's a waste of space, is past his sell by date and has destroyed the garden city!!! I have never seen GT so nasty, so chaotic, so toxic! The gov't needs to get rid of him and quickly.

The biggest laugh I had in GT was when a dankee start eating the veg and fruits by a few stalls outside Stabroek market and a cow join in. All the vendors were asleep and this was just like a little past midnight. I said "poetic justice".