THE Private Sector Commission, on Tuesday, called for the removal of Georgetown Mayor Ubraj Narine following the chief citizen’s regrettable performance at midnight last evening blocking the removal of illegal vendors on New Market Street, Georgetown outside the public hospital.

The PSC said Narine “in the course of protesting against the removal of vendors on New Market Street, descended into making a number of wholly unacceptable, vile, obnoxious, religiously offensive and highly provocative personal statements publicly directed at the President of our country.”

“The Private Sector is appalled at these statements and condemns them in the strongest possible manner,” the body continued.

“Mr. Narine, having realized that his statements were immediately rejected out of hand as offensive and dangerously divisive by the Christian, Muslim and Hindu organisations of our country, belatedly, attempted an apology.

“The Private Sector is of the view that, given the high office and responsibility of the Mayorship of our capital city, Mr. Ubraj Narine has proved himself to be unfit for this office and is left with no alternative but to immediately resign,” the commission said.

The issue of illegal vending has been a sore one for Georgetown’s business community. In December 2021, a high court judge ordered the Georgetown Town Clerk to instruct the City Constabulary to ensure that the municipality’s requirement under law to regulate vending in the capital city is properly carried out. That order followed a legal challenge brought by prominent business, Shamdas Kirpalani on Regent Street.