AS a citizen I was always very worried about the public fights between Mr. Hamilton Green and many Council Officers including the former Town Clerk. But it was bound to happen because Mr. Green is a politician attempting to do administrative work for which he has no competence. It has politicised the Council intensely. There is no other entity with such heavy politics as the City Council. Government bashing has become a normal thing at City Hall where the city remains dirty and in need of care. The end result is that he is destroying not only the established systems and procedures used by successive councils but also the career prospects of young professionals at the Mayor and city Council.
All this is happening in the face of the need for more professionals at public entities in this country. I get the impression that Mr. Green is intolerant of dissenting voices. I have heard that Mr. Green has s sinister plan to get rid of officers who are not loyal to him personally. It is an old political culture that still prevails in certain parts of our society. It is amazing that he is allowed to get away with destroying the city for more than a decade.
Reading what is coming out in the press he initiated the dismissal of all the officers who were sent home. It is a shame because very soon, if Green gets his way, there would be no institutional memory left at that place. He will remain a bad taste in the mouths of those whose career prospects he has dashed to pieces. Their children will live to tell the tale for generations to come.