GEORGETOWN is under water again. Again, the incompetence and negligence of those who administer the affairs of the city are laid bare for all to see. Hamilton Green must now be over 80 years old. He has been in charge of the Georgetown City Council for over 16 years. He travels the world and writes a bundle of irrelevance in the press, while the city decays. He accepts no responsibility but blames the government. When anyone challenges his abuse of authority within the Council, he launches a most vindictive and vicious campaign against them. I recall what he did to Ms. Beulah Williams, a former Town Clerk and Ms. Carol Sooba, the current Town Clerk, is his latest victim. His wife owed the City Council over $10M in rates and taxes for the years that he is Mayor. When she is sued for the taxes owed, he barefacedly alleges political discrimination. The vulgarity seems limitless.

When he and his party, the PNC, were in government for 28 years, they took Guyana from being the most prosperous country in the Caribbean, both economically and socially in 1966, to a state of bankruptcy, making us the poorest country in the hemisphere, second only to Haiti when they left office in 1992. He held pivotal positions in Government throughout those years. Now, he and his party are in charge of the City and the Parliament, unsurprisingly, there are chaos, dictatorship and destruction in both of these places. No longer must we allow them to shirk their responsibilities.
Hamilton Green and his party, the APNU must take full responsibility for the flood waters, the destruction which result and the mismanagement which takes place in the City. I will be bold and ask a question that thousands of Guyanese want to ask but are shy to do so. However, the situation is dire and someone must ask the question. Do we have to wait until Hamilton Green dies in office? He has been in public life before I was born, contributed little but destroyed much.
It is indeed a sad day when man has to rely on death for rescue from his fellow man.

SUNDARNAUTH