I MAKE reference to an article penned by Rashleigh Jackson in the Stabroek News on January 21, 2012 captioned: ‘An Interim Management Committee for the city could be a colonial aberration.’ In that letter, he chided the government to ever set up such a committee because, as he puts it, this would be tantamount to “a colonial aberration.”
In essence what Jackson is telling the governing party is hands off, stay out of the city’s business. What contempt, because even if you had half a brain you should be concerned with the sad state of affairs that is Georgetown.
It seems that the squalid sight of the capital city is an acceptable norm by this supposedly learned gentleman. What he is vainly trying to do is justify a former PNC comrade’s ineptitude by casting blame on the government.
Why should the government feel comfortable with a garbage dump like Georgetown, or why should they have pleasant thoughts of a mayor who does practically nothing but make political gimmickry, one who makes frequent overseas trips at the drop of a hat. Why? Does this make sense to me? Of course not! But presumably it does for Jackson. The real reason for such a contemptuous appeal is that Jackson, as so many of his PNC hacks, gloat in the idea of the capital city embarrassing the government.
After all, Georgetown holds the seat of this country’s administration hence the sights and sounds, however putrid and malodorous, with crass cacophony cause the government to look bad to any local or foreigner.
It is their cheap way in gaining political mileage on the PPP/C-run government. Something has to be done and that time is now to bring an end to these sick people with their sick joke.
I think Rashleigh Jackson as well as his PNC comrade Hamilton Green need to be mindful of their standing in the community. They stand out as persons who are devoid of dignity never to have held public office.