GEORGETOWN Mayor Ubraj Narine, along with a number of city councillors, agreed on Monday that the entire Public Relations (PR) Department at the municipality needs to be reconfigured. Currently, it is being headed by Ms. Debra Lewis.

Narine referred to a recent incident where he paid a visit to Carnegie, and noone from the PR Department had informed the administration of the institution of the intended visit.
According to him, he has to experience stress and tension every time there is need for him to contact that department, and vowed not to contact the department again. “The PR Department is not functioning as it is supposed to. I’ll have to write my schedule and give them in advance. You have to go through 20 people before you can get the PR,” he said.
Narine in vowing not to call the department again, said: “I will just go out there and do my work. I will not contact that department further.”

He said the municipality is wasting money to pay officers in that department, and called on the Acting Town Clerk to act. “She’s the acting Town Clerk and needs to put her foot down on certain things.”

Councillor Ayodele Roach said the work being produced by the Public Relations Department is “trash.” She later retracted this statement, and offered that the department was not doing enough.

Roach pointed out that while the M&CC has a Facebook profile, the municipality does not have a page. She said she is hoping that the department will cover the work of the councillors, and not just that of the mayor.

But the mayor responded that even his department is not being covered.
“It’s unfortunate that you of all persons are saying this,” Acting Town Clerk Sharon Harry replied, and as she attempted to continue explaining, Narine interrupted: “Madame Town Clerk I am speaking! Please!”

Former Mayor Patricia Chase-Green referred to the kind of tools that are available in the said department, and urged that the council decide if it wants to keep the department or not. “Let’s first determine what we have, and then we will be able to see what we can get out of it.”