THE Alliance For Change (AFC) has signalled that its Georgetown councillor Sherod Duncan will not apologise to Town Clerk Royston King.

The party in a statement said King needs to better understand his role and functions and the reporting structure at City Hall.

“He is a servant of the people of Georgetown and the Mayor and City Council, not, as the evidence of his actions and conduct suggest, the other way round. Specifically, the AFC puts Mr King on notice that the vulgar demand letter sent to duly elected councillor and former Deputy Mayor Sherod Duncan will be strongly resisted by the party,” the AFC said.

The party also said that it has detected that the public no longer has any confidence that King is either capable of, or willing to execute the functions of the town clerk.

King has sent a lawyer’s letter to Duncan demanding an apology for newspaper articles that King said have brought him into ridicule and contempt.

Attorney-at-law Maxwell Edwards prepared the “Demand Letter” on behalf of King, in which three Guyana Chronicle articles were cited with the headlines, “Duncan signals no-confidence vote against King”, “King faces no-confidence vote,” and “Secret Ballot to decide King’s fate.”

The letter said the statements mentioned in the article conveyed the meaning that the town clerk was in serious jeopardy of administrative disciplinary proceedings and was liable to face disciplinary consequences as severe as dismissal from the office of town clerk.

“The offending published statements and comments constitute a most callous and disparaging libel of my client done with malice; and with the predominant intent to injure my client in his employment,” the letter said.

King wants a full apology from Duncan to be published in the Guyana Chronicle.