CITY MAYOR Hamilton Green’s proclivity for making war on females who assume leadership positions in the city’s hierarchal construct is well recorded, and three female Town Clerks prior to the appointment of Ms. Carol Sooba, as well as his new ally, Patricia Chase-Green, have been relentlessly persecuted and pilloried by Green.

Thieves do not like fellow thieves who trespass on their turf. During the period 2004/2005, Green had relentlessly campaigned to have city Public Relations Officer Royston King relieved of his position on the basis of incompetence and mismanagement, and prosecuted for fraud and corruption.

In a motion dated August 6th 2004, with Green’s full support and endorsement, councilors had questioned King’s usefulness and posited that under his stewardship the Public Relations Department if City Council had failed to fulfill its mandate.

A New Guymedia release recalled: “The motion said that on many occasions, councillors and the Deputy Mayor had to make explanations in response to concerns. In the motion, several bills for expenditure were questioned and described as ‘unusual’. As an example of these questionable expenditures incurred by King, an amount for $47,500, purported to have been used for ‘Christmas Greetings’, was highlighted. The council found this expenditure to be strange, given that the council had both video and digital recording cameras that could have been used, and that the greetings were from neither Mayor, Deputy Mayor nor councillors. Many other instances were listed.”

So what changed from then to now, so much so that Green is championing Royston King in his bid, not for head honcho position of a department, but in the management capacity over the city’s affairs?

And there is the recent expose` of his fraudulent acts, one of which was a debt write-off of a considerable sum for an entity under the pretence that he was mandated to do so as Town Clerk, even before the occurrence of the equally fraudulent act of the erstwhile Mayor and his minions in the City Council of appointing King Town Clerk, which they were fully aware was an act not within their remit.

And New Guymedia asks: “Why has King suddenly become the most suitably qualified person to replace Sooba in the eyes of Mayor Green and his PNC/APNU colleagues, who had waged a relentless battle to have him removed as PRO, citing corruption and incompetence?

Hamilton Green’s posturing and combative attitudes have held to ransom the citizens of Georgetown and its environs for too long, because his term in office has long expired. Derelicts also have time expiration dates, and one would hope that that time is sooner rather than later, because derelicts are perilous to the welfare of the city and its citizens, and should be relegated to the garbage dump where they belong.

It is to be hoped that Ms. Sooba’s quest to restore the city to some semblance of accountability, viability and professional governance would continue to bear fruit; but she is a woman, and three other women before her have caved in to Green’s quest for supremacy and efforts at retaining his hold on the city’s purse strings, so that stealing from the coffers of the citizens of Georgetown remains the remit of a chosen few.