LONG before Town Clerk Carol Sooba came on the scene, there was a corrupt Mayor; and long before, very long before, there was a garbage city under the PNC Government. This I would like to firmly bring to the consciousness of the reading public. So this hullabaloo surrounding the newly-appointed Town Clerk is, for the most part, utter trash!
The real reason behind the present debacle in the Georgetown City Council starts and ends with the Mayor. He is the one who should be at the centre of all investigations.
This entire scenario has to do with a corrupt Mayor and a facilitating City Council that wants the searchlight to be turned outwards on a supposedly unsuspecting Town Clerk; but that is not going to happen.
I have already dealt with the issue of Mayor Hamilton Green’s behaviour towards a former Town Clerk who dared to challenge his corrupt management of the city’s finances, and the way he and like-minded councillors got rid of her.
However, this present Town Clerk is not going anywhere; she is facing Green square-on; and for this I am very grateful. Finally, someone has the courage to put Green in his place, like the proverbial saying, she is “taking the bull by the horns”.
Former Town Clerk, Beulah Williams might not have had the necessary backings from the Council to stand up to Green, but, from the latest reports, Sooba seems to be getting that much-needed support. So I say to Ms Sooba, go for it, because change will come to Georgetown if you persevere.
In this regard, Green has set up strategies to undermine Sooba’s authority as Town Clerk, and it is coming by way of lies and vile character assassinations. Green attempted to besmirch Sooba on Easter Monday when he concluded that the Town Clerk slapped a $7000 tax on all kite flyers, using the sea wall location.
This draconian measure was supposedly issued by the Town Clerk to hurt and insult innocent Christians, who are accustomed to these Easter festivities. Well, this statement by the Mayor was furthest from the truth, rather, it turned out to be a blatant lie. Folks were able to fly their kites unimpeded by any fines or anything of the likes of Green’s threat.
What the Town Clerk was calling for is a fee to be paid by the vendors using the seawall facility, which normally goes toward the huge clean-up that is needed after such events.
When Green realised that he was caught in that kite-fee-paying lie, he then resorted to a waiver on all vendors using the site. Shameless man! So, whether it is the “tale of the missing mace” or vile accusations of not releasing funds to a squandering Mayor, even low and unconstitutional acts of denying the Town Clerk the privileges of saying prayers at Council meetings, these all make out Green to be the vulgar liar that he is. This despicable man would not back away; he just would not stop. He keeps showing up at each corner with these horrible lies.
I can go on and on exposing this vile old bully, but I must conclude. Right now, we are in the throes of the COI into the Walter Rodney murder that took place during the PNC era, when strange and mysterious deaths occurred. Wouldn’t it be most appropriate for the Mayor of Georgetown to come forward and give us some much-needed information as to the cause or causes leading up to his wife’s death?
I make this humble request in keeping with the record of good accountability in public office. I would further ask the Chief Citizen to shed some light on the circumstances surrounding his former wife’s death, as we seek his “supposed” relationship with the second.
These are some lingering questions that require answers. Mr Green, as a public figure then and now, we demand the right to know the truth, or at least you can clear the air on any misconceptions we might have had about these two ladies. Sir, would you be so kind as to furnish us with some information pertaining to these occurrences during your powerful heydays?

NEIL ADAMS