ONE cannot help but observe that his Highness, eternal Mayor of Georgetown, Hamilton Green, found time from his busy schedule overseas to express his disappointment via the letter columns of the recent move to confirm Ms. Carol Sooba as Town Clerk.While the city is inundated with floodwater and Mr. Green is overseas on his constant vacation, sorry sojourn, the Ministry of Public Works has been left with no option but to take on Mr. Green’s responsibility ‘yet again’ to clean up the capital city.

When this exercise is done, you can bet your bottom dollar that his Highness will once again accuse Government of either starving City Hall of resources (despite the fact that they rake in hundreds of millions in taxes annually), or controlling the reins of the M&CC (despite the fact that Council has sole authority to spend those hundreds of millions), depending on which excuse best suits the occasion.
But while the Government is expending millions to clean up the city and Mr. Green’s close to 1000 staff have been mostly missing in action (How else can one explain the state of the city’s drainage?), it was quite heartening to see the workers’ union president confirming that their presence will at last be seen and felt in the city, even if it is in the form of a protest. His grouse-The confirmation of Ms. Sooba!

SILENCE OF THE LAMBS
One can clearly sense his deep concern for the welfare of the city. How else can we explain the “silence” of this union president, when boats are needed in Georgetown? Or, when the garbage piles in some cases just metres from City Hall, threaten to rival Mount Roraima?
But he suddenly finds his voice and threatens protest action when the Local Government Minister moves to confirm a woman, who has exposed the severe failings of City Hall in her short stint in that position; but even more so, has been experiencing gradual success in her efforts to reverse the fortunes of the city. Her success is also more significant when one takes into consideration from the onset, the constant stumbling blocks placed in her path by the opposition members who control the Council led by his Highness, even to the point of barricading her from her office and trying to intimidate her at her place of residence.
Old Kai will present Mr. Union President with a blue-ray copy of ‘Silence of the Lambs’ as a Christmas present, it will teach him not one but two interesting realities in life.
Not surprising, Kai has also noticed the two opposition parties trying to jostle for media space in their ‘condemnation’ of the appointment. We have been inundated with their concern at the state of the city (Only when a camera is around) but can anyone tell us whatever happened to the APNU’s highly touted announcement several months ago (in front of the cameras) that they will embark on a ‘massive’ clean-up campaign in Georgetown? Has that campaign, like some of City Hall’s workers and His Highness, gone missing in action?
Not really, as his Highness and APNU are now one, once again. So it’s no surprise that APNU’s clean-up exercise was just another failure. These are the very people that control the Mayor and City Council, so go figure.

APNU’s MATHS
Remember, over 90% of the PNC make up APNU.
His Highness was expelled from the PNC in 1992/1993 and formed the GGG under which he became mayor, during this period he has seen the GGG deteriorate under his leadership just like our dear Georgetown and as usual he decided to jump ship ‘once again’ and return home.
So the PNC, which by this time had added R for Rigging, sorry Reform now had to also substitute 1G (Green) from the GGG = PNC/R1G. How did we still end up with Rig?