A series exposing Hamilton Green’s evolving position at the helm of the Georgetown Mayor and City Council

Mayor Green has forgotten that he once blamed the state of Georgetown on the PNCR

…and praised the PPP/C Government for their support towards the M&CC

OLD KAI was not surprised that Mayor Hamilton Green has sought to put 100% blame on the People’s Progressive Party/Civic Government for the present state of our capital city, while responding to President Donald Ramotar’s recent observation that City Hall has become a ‘disaster’. Over the past few years, successive PPP/C administrations and leaders have become his ‘get out of jail’ excuse for the present state of our Capital City under his watch.I cannot recall any point during his tenure where Mayor Green has ever sought to take responsibility for issues in the City, rather someone or something else is always to be blamed.
Now it is the Town Clerk, Carol Sooba, and the PPP/C Government. Previously it was Town Clerk, Yvonne Pluck, and before her it was Town Clerk, Buela Williams, and before her it was his current ally, Royston King, and before him it was basically everyone in the City Council, and before and during this period it was the PNCR, now APNU.
You do not believe Old Kai? Well before Hammie rushes to sue Old Kai again, he may want to sit down for this bit of revelation.
Once upon a time, a bit over 10 years ago, it was no less than PNC/R General Secretary, Oscar Clarke, who had described the competence of Mayor Green in a Stabroek News article of March, 2003, “I don’t think Green’s leadership on the Council has been exemplary.” Why? Because Green has “had very bad relationships with the most senior members of the council,” Clarke stated. He said that his relationship with “the Town Clerk, with the City Engineer, with everybody has always been topsy turvy.”

Further, Clarke contended, “If you are the leader and you have such a terrible relationship with the top administrators, how could you get their support? It can’t be that all of them are bad. Something got to be wrong with you.” As a friend and colleague, he said, he has advised Green to examine himself.

Readers will have to decide if the goodly Mayor took the advice of his PNCR colleague seriously when considering his attitude towards the current Town Clerk, Ms. Sooba.
It does not end there, as back then, Mayor Green not only sought to blame officials at the M&CC, but specifically his current ally, the PNC/R, for the state of our City. The Stabroek News article noted that from the outset, Green said, the councillors from the opposition parties “seem to be opposing some of what I wanted to do.”
Old Kai will encourage Mayor Green to sit on the floor for this next revelation as there is a strong possibility he may fall off his chair.  Currently, he never misses an opportunity to lambaste the PPP/C for never supporting him in his position of Mayor or the Council for that matter. He has accused the Government of constantly trying to undermine the M&CC, but this was not always the case. Rather, 11 years ago, he was full of praise for the PPP/C administration and especially for their support towards improving Georgetown.
We are told by the Stabroek News article that Mayor Green said that apart from the cooperation he got from the President and the Ministers, “beyond that it is frightening,” adding that politics had conspired against him “in the sense that the PNC, under former PNCR Leader, Desmond Hoyte, did not want me (Green) to be a successful mayor.”

He contended that the PNC worked very closely with these senior officers of the Council who have been carrying out a campaign to discredit him.
So there you have it; in 2003, Mayor Green had laid the blame for the state of the Capital City squarely at the feet of the PNC/R, now APNU, but now he has teamed up with these very people, apparently suffering from a memory failure,  and is seeking to shift this blame to the PPP/C.
(More damning exposures will follow in the next episode which will be featured in the Monday edition of the Guyana Chronicle.)