Sooba denies saying Chase-Green is gay –
Town Clerk (ag) Carol Sooba)
Town Clerk (ag) Carol Sooba)

ACTING Town Clerk Carol Sooba has maintained her position that she did not directly relate to any news medium that Deputy Mayor Patricia Chase-Green is “gay”.But she disclosed that she Chase-Green acts in a vulgar manner at statutory meetings. According to Sooba, at the press conference held on Friday July 18, she had made known to the media some of her concerns.
She said that one such concern was that of constant attack from the Deputy Mayor, Patricia Chase-Green, who she said, would usually make her the subject of her discussions. “Every time you switch on the television or you pick up the daily newspaper, you would see the Deputy Mayor, Madam Patricia Chase-Green, making all kinds of comments and releases about the Town Clerk acting,” she stressed.
The Town Clerk emphasised that she, in a laughing tone, uttered the words that she is “fearful that the Deputy Mayor might be attracted” to her. This, she said, was apparently taken out of context by some media operatives who related that she said that the Deputy Mayor is “gay”. This, she noted, she is not responsible for.
“Madam Chase-Green is not the official spokesperson for this Council. I was more so concerned why is it that she repeatedly continues with her attack on me and I was questioning whether there was something other than that” Sooba said.
She continued that the Deputy Mayor would usually attack her verbally at statutory meetings held in the Chambers, and on one occasion, she (Chase-Green) “turn her back in my direction and wriggle her ass”, even though Sooba requested the Mayor to intervene, an effort which proved futile as the Mayor revealed “he is deaf; he doesn’t hear… and he is blind; he doesn’t see.”
Another instance, Sooba pointed to, was that of three statutory meetings back when “she bent and touched her toes. She noted that these constant actions constitute vulgarity and on this particular occasion, male persons who were around, bore witness to such disregard which Sooba deemed as an “exhibition of her limitations.”
Commenting on the $15M lawsuit filed against her by the Deputy Mayor, Sooba maintained that she is unaware as to what she should apologise for. “I never said that she was gay” and Attorney-at-law Leslie Sobers would know what constitutes libel and what constitutes defamation” she noted.
Sooba is contending, however, that the current situation is a publicity campaign by the Deputy Mayor since the Deputy Mayor resorted to circulating the writ to media houses. She is of the belief that if it was “libellous and defamatory” Chase-Green would not have publicised the matter more. As such, she is also contending that the matter is a personal one, since she is being taken to court for what the media took out of context.
She continued that at Monday’s Statutory Meeting held in the Chambers of City Hall, a cheap publicity stunt was pulled after the Court Marshal served her the writ in front of media houses who favour Chase-Green. Sooba noted that the Marshal did not seek to serve her the writ in private but rather in the presence of the media who appeared rather early that particular meeting. This she said was “cheap publicity.”
Commenting on the public’s view of a degenerated City Hall, the acting Town Clerk disclosed that she has a major role to play at City Hall and while other officers, including solid waste director, City engineer, Medical Officer of Health and others are working, they rely heavily on the support the Council which they are not getting.
“The mayor would sit there for hours and his Councilors, specifically the Deputy Mayor, Councillors Eon Andrews, Gregory Fraser, Oscar Clarke and Ranwell Jordan; they will all sit there and find every excuse to bash the Town Clerk for things that are of least importance, and they do not care that the business of the citizens are there to be dealt with” she lamented.
According to her, “All they talk about is money and their concern with this contract and that contract. In fact I was told that I am a devil by Councillor Oscar Clarke last Monday.”

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