Easter Monday vending on the seawalls…Vendors will be charged for selected spots-Sooba explains

– believes Deputy Mayor needs prayers
TOWN Clerk Carol Sooba has undertaken to pray for the Deputy Mayor of Georgetown, Patricia Chase-Green during this time of the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ.“In the name of God around this crucifixion time I don’t know what the Deputy Mayor is trying to do, I would have to pray for her,” Sooba told reporters on Tuesday.
Sooba gave this solemn undertaking while addressing a press conference regarding misleading information being peddled by the Mayor and Deputy Mayor of Georgetown.
Her contention was the protest by Chase-Green and several other members of the City Council over a decision of the Town Clerk’s office to charge persons for occupying selected spots along the seawalls on Easter Monday.
Chase-Green, according to Sooba, is attempting to give the impression that every single individual who shows up to occupy a spot on the seawalls will be asked to pay a fee, but that is not so, the Town Clerk assured.
She said there are specific spots which would be sold to persons who wish to vend on Easter Monday. In addition, the Council will be ensuring enforcement on Easter Monday whereby persons who land on the spots will be made to pay for the space or they will be evicted.
Sooba, herself a Christian, said that she sees no issue with persons being asked to pay to use the selected spots.
“Christians should dress up in their long gongs, go to the seawalls, fly their kites and resurrect Christ on Easter Monday if they don’t want to pay the fee for occupying spots along the Seawalls on Easter Day,” she said.
Further, Sooba said it is strange that the Deputy Mayor who was once in charge of the selling of spots to persons for kite flying on Easter Monday, and who is also a Christian did not take the time to be so holy when she used to sell the very spots to Christians in the past.
She added that there will be no place for thieves in her administration and the mayor and some councillors are welcomed to be part of the bigger process of restoring City Hall, but there must be the understanding that she is the administrator of the Council and all matters which should be passed through her by law will have to be respected.
The Town Clerk reminded that the Council is no longer at the place where workers have to strike or protest for their monies at the end of the month and that has come about through better financial oversight and accountability.
By Leroy Smith

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