–Chase-Green asks ‘wha wrong with this mad woman?’

AFTER Acting Town Clerk Carol Sooba departed from City Hall’s statutory meeting, due to unforeseen circumstances yesterday, Deputy Town Clerk Sharon Harry-Munroe was met with hostility by Deputy Mayor Patricia Chase-Green.

The latter asked of no one in particular, “Wha wrong with this mad woman,” referring to Munroe after they couldn’t agree on some issues.
The meeting, which was held yesterday in the Chambers of City Hall, commenced with the correcting of minutes after which announcements were made by Mayor Hamilton Green. This was followed by a request by councillor Ranwell Jordan who appealed for the standing orders to be suspended, subsequently listing several issues he wanted the Council to examine. One such issue highlighted by him was that of a new Chairman of the Finance Committee.
Jordan said that at an Extraordinary meeting on May 6th, Eon Andrews was voted as a replacement in place of Junior Garrett as the Chairman of the Finance Committee. He stressed that two motions were passed which included Royston King as a replacement for acting Town Clerk Carol Sooba and the motion to appoint Andrews as the Finance Committee Chairman.
After his contribution, councillor Kamla Devi-Ross rose to her feet explaining that the Extraordinary meeting was unlawful since the agenda was never prepared by the Town Clerk, the acting Town Clerk was absent and so no minutes were taken by her.
Deputy Mayor Patricia Chase-Green interjected, however, stressing that the motion was passed and Andrews was recommended as the best candidate to replace Garrett.
Another councillor, Hector Stoute, rose at this time to reiterate the call for the replacement but was advised by the Deputy Town Clerk that the motion was not included in the day’s agenda and as such, if they so requested, it can be addressed at the next statutory meeting.
Harry-Munroe stressed that the new issues which were surfacing at yesterday’s meeting were issues which could not be addressed because the motions were not included in the agenda. She also supported Devi-Ross’ comment contending that the Extraordinary meeting which saw discussions being put forward for Garrett to be replaced by Andrews was an unlawful one and the propositions were never tabled at the following statutory meeting.
Ian Andrews then took the spotlight and related to Munroe that he is not in need of the position but he was requested by members of the council who have the confidence in him to Chair the committee and as such it is not an issue for him. He also labelled her as being a stranger to the truth after his recollection of the events differed from her.
As Munroe continued to justify the position in not tabling the motion at the statutory meeting, the Deputy Mayor, glancing at the public domain uttered in disgust “wa wrong with this mad woman?”
She then continued to lead a verbal attack on the Deputy Town Clerk, admonishing that she (Chase-Green) is still “above” the Deputy Town Clerk, hinting that she should not be challenged on the issue.
At this point, Mayor Green then requested her to take her seat. Munroe continued in her explanation but was forced to stop speaking after councillor Jordan rose to his feet once more, urging the Mayor “Item two Sir.”

(By Ravin Singh)