IN RELATION to the current catastrophe facing our city and municipalities across the country, and in particular the one in Georgetown, we hear and see being applied to the sick patient prescriptions that include a combination of informal recommendations and formal policy approaches by citizens, interest groups and political policy makers.

These prescriptions include the establishment of IMCs; short-term periods of compromises for city council and city administrators to work together; $1 billion budgetary allocation for country wide cleanup; and a unanimous parliamentary motion to restore Georgetown.

All these medicines represent misplaced approaches to what is really needed to address the core problem that is destroying our city, towns and communities. We should not continue to waste precious resources, time and energies on such bandages and diversions. Instead, we should put all our efforts towards hosting of Local Government Elections.

I join with my colleagues to repeat the call for Minister Whittaker to set a date for the urgent hosting of LGE. I am ready!

KEOMA GRIFFITH