THE Mayor and City Council (M&CC) of Georgetown are shameless! They have started again with their usual tag line “financial problems.”

This is about the fourth year in a row that the Mayor is complaining, close to year- end, that the council has financial difficulties.

Where are all the taxes and other revenues collected by the Council? Why it that every year the Government has to bail the City Council out of its debts?

The mere fact that Georgetown has expanded over the years and continues to expand with more businesses being established, more people moving into the city, means that more taxes are being paid to the city council. Where are all these monies going?

It is really a sad state where all Guyanese and more so the residents of the City have to be bombarded with a stinky city and garbage filled drains, all because of one man who feels that he owns the city!

I suggest that Mayor Hamilton Green give the residents and more so, all Guyanese an early Christmas gift by demitting office.

He claims that the government is running the affairs of the city, which is totally misleading. I think the government should indeed manage the affairs of the city since it has been bailing out the council with millions of dollars ever so often.

Meanwhile, in the midst of the criticisms of City Hall, I must acknowledge that there are some departments in the Council that are working well and can even do better if they were not being suffocated by a man who wants to be Mayor for life.
NEIL PERSAUD