I AM writing you as a concerned property owner in the city about the Mayor and City Council’s unlawful operations. A few days ago, a friend of mine, who is a long-serving worker there, told me that the Council is working without an approved budget for 2020. If this is true, then they are spending taxpayers’ money illegally. The Council does not have to wait on the National Assembly; it has to do its own budget. Can someone say how much money they are allowed to spend without a budget?
Mr. Editor, there must be a law that says something about this kind of thing. How can the Council know its performance without a budget? The Mayor is talking about transparency, and is on social media all the time, but doesn’t even have an approved budget for 2020. This is the end of August; five more months before the end of 2020, and the City Council does not have a budget. What are they doing?
They have also been giving amnesty to certain special individuals, using a special committee headed by the Deputy Mayor and Finance Chairman. My friend told me that no report has been submitted to the Council on how much amnesty was given to people for 2019 and 2020. No one knows how much money was lost to the Council by giving this amnesty. All of these things are going on, but the Council is crying out that it does not have money to clean up the city. In 2020, Georgetown looks like a cesspool in the middle of Guyana, with a Mayor who seems not to know basic things about being a Mayor. It is hard to understand how Mr. Ubraj Narine got that job in the first place, under the Granger-led Administration. I thought that former President David Granger had much more class than that. Maybe I was wrong. I will sue the City Council for forcing me to live in a dirty environment.
The other thing is that the APNU+AFC political party is complaining about the new government dismissing people, but the Mayor and his councillors are sending home workers who have been there for years, and who supported APNU+AFC. Why are they doing that? They are knocking off their own supporters, but vex when the government is moving out political appointees from government offices.

Yours sincerely,
John Bever