–Team Benschop city councillor resigns

TEAM Benschop City Councillor, Salima Bacchus-Hinds has resigned from the Mayor and City Council (M&CC) with effect from September 1, in order to facilitate the rotating of the council seat. Georgetown Mayor Patricia Chase-Green announced at Monday’s statutory meeting that she received Bacchus-Hinds resignation.

“My time at the council has been invaluable experience and I am grateful to have had opportunity to serve the residents of Georgetown,” Chase-Green quoted the councillor as saying.

The Mayor thanked Bacchus-Hinds for her contribution and asked Town Clerk Royston King to inform the Guyana Elections Commission of the vacancy that will exist from September 1, under Team Benschop.

Following the statutory meeting, Bacchus-Hinds told the Guyana Chronicle that the reason for her resignation was to facilitate her team’s decision to rotate the seat. “So my time is up,” she commented, while she declined to state who is being considered for her place.

Meanwhile,leader of Team Benschop, Mark Benschop told this newspaper in an invited comment yesterday that a few individuals are being reviewed. “However, again I’ve declined to go as I prefer the younger ones get the experience in fighting for the people via the council,” he said.

Benschop, too, will occupy the seat as councillor before the end of the three-year council.