CITY Hall with its continuous problems of being cash strapped sought to downplay the important fact that the People’s National Congress Reform (PNCR) has owed $100M in rates and taxes to the Council, which would go a long way in assisting the council to carry out its functions.

It is being touted that since Mayor Green is an executive member of the party he sought to help out his brothers by allowing them to withhold critical funds needed by the council as a show perhaps of party loyalty.

However, this has just served to show the public the level of incompetence and the complete lack of accountability and transparency that exists in the council.

After the matter was brought to the public’s attention for so long, the Council is finally moving towards collecting its taxes from that party. However, why has the Council waited this long to finally approach the PNCR and work out a payment plan? The money owed to the Council by that Party can go a long way to ensure that work is done in the City.

Mayor Green has always been quick to criticise government at every opportunity he gets even though it is the government that has had to bail out the council on countless occasions and will, I am sure, continue to do so, since government does not want the people of the city to suffer.

The members of the PNCR should be ashamed! The party makes such noise when it feels that something is going wrong and that government is not accountable or transparent enough. But this time, the party has itself been robbing the city of much needed funds by refusing to pay its taxes. The main opposition has been robbing the residents of the City of development and services and should be ashamed of its actions!
CECILIA PERSAUD