–urges they work together ‘for the betterment of Georgetown’
CHAIRMAN and Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the Guyana Office for Investment (GO-Invest), Mr Keith Burrowes, is calling on the Georgetown Mayor and City Council (M&CC) and “the appointed Town Clerk” to work in unison in the interest of progress, and to improve the current situation at the Council.

“I wish to beg all parties to put their differences aside and work for the betterment of Georgetown, [and to] acknowledge the embarassing spectacle you are all making of yourselves, moreso Guyana,” Burrowes said in a paid advertisement carried in all the dailies yesterday.

The situation at reference is the unravelling of the events at City Hall, or “the daily shenanigans”, as Burrowes prefers, whereby the Mayor and Councillors had opted to illegally oust Acting Town Clerk, Ms Carol Sooba in favour of the preferential installment of Public Relations Officer (PRO), Ms Royston King.

Such goings-on, Burrowes said in his “appeal”, are not only “in poor taste” and “usually associated with trashy sensational journalism,” but also pander to “attention seekers while the city of Georgetown continues to suffer.”
He also touched on the negative impact their open hostility is likely to have on the country, saying, “While most persons measure the performance of the Georgetown Mayor & City Council mainly by the garbage that seems to be on every corner of the city, they should also understand that there are many other economic factors to be considered, for example promoting tourism and other investment opportunities in Guyana.”
In closing, Burrowes said, “My proposal to you all is to attempt to work together for at least six months; perhaps by this time we will begin to see some progress and improvement in the current situation.”
Head of the Presidential Secretariat, Dr. Roger Luncheon, has since called the Motion by the Mayor and Councillors as both “illegal and unconstitutional.”
Burrowes was some time ago elected Head of the Implementation Committee set up to look into the operations of the Georgetown Mayor & City Council. The 45 recommendations proposed in the Burrowes Report are yet to be implemented.
By Derwayne Wills