I AM appalled that Mayor Hamilton Green is still with a voice, pen and face. He was utterly exposed and humiliated, during one session of the Rodney Commission of Inquiry and had to walk out, feigning an excuse. Now it is the same, as regards the massive clean-up exercise that is about to begin in Georgetown. And by the way, Georgetown’s present state is exclusively the work and legacy of Green.

Let me quickly make a comment on how the Opposition parties have been most biased. They love to talk about how repulsive Georgetown has become, but I never hear them calling on Green to get his act together. I think especially of Moses Nagamootoo and how he personally suffered at the hands of Green, during his PNC days. Yet Nagamootoo is talking about ‘no confidence’ against this Government. Shame on him!
I know for decades that there was no transparency/accountability with the Mayor and City Council, so I can see where Green’s anger is coming from. That is why I am not surprised, at what he desperately attempted, during the 2014 Easter Day mayhem. He and his ‘henchmen’ tried bullyism, to take control of cash proceeds, legally collected by the Council, from vendors.
Mr. Editor, we must never ever forget the kind of character Hamilton Green is and what he was immersed in for all of his life, both with the PNC and up to recent, as the Mayor of Georgetown. He sees a last minute opportunity to capitalise, where the massive billion-dollar, clean up exercise is concerned; especially the Georgetown leg that has half of the budgeted amount. This is why is he is walking out of meetings, complaining about a proposed Interim Management Committee, and trying so hard to get the funds into his hands.

I have to laugh when a man like Green is talking about constitutional rule, law and order etc. He never was a follower of the things that he is now seeking to champion. Also, since he has been such a failure as Mayor, then he should allow for a different form of administration, even if only for this clean-up exercise.

I call on the two Opposition parties to speak out against what is happening, where Green and his cohorts are concerned. Both AFC and APNU are silent and evil supporters of this man.

BALDEO MATHURA