A CONGRATULATORY message to President David Granger and his administration, which went to the Georgetown City Council in the form of a Motion, was passed with majority support at the municipality’s statutory meeting earlier this week. The Motion was moved by Councillor Llewellyn John and was seconded by councillor Eon Andrews. The message took the form of a Motion so that it could have been recorded in City Hall’s records.
The motion, however, did not sit well with the People’s Progressive Party (PPP) councillors and three of them, Elme Ishmael, Victor Sobers and Parabhodial Sattan opted to walk out of the meeting.
Before leaving, Sattan contended that they could not support such a motion because the PPP is claiming that the recent general and regional elections were rigged and was nothing short of a fraud. Sattan pointed to a number of so-called discrepancies that were found and noted that a recount, as was requested by the PPP, was not consented to.
Meanwhile, Councillor Andrews said special congratulations were in order for the new President David Arthur Granger, Prime Minister Moses Verasammy Nagamootoo and by extension, the newly appointed Minister of Communities Ronald Bulkan.
“It is no secret that the City of Georgetown, among others, had been under siege by the previous Government that inflicted severe wounds of destabilisation and mismanagement with the clear desire to annihilate the elected mayor and councillors of the city.
“They have also contributed to, if not created, an underclass culture of idleness, dependency, and self-perpetuating poverty,” Andrew told the council.
He said he has no doubt that the leaders of the coalition, by means of their recent victory, have given the council an option to breathe fresh air on their own accord and not through a respirator.
“We have removed a government that was corrupt, nepotistic, and spiteful and those characteristics had infiltrated every facet of the Guyanese society, including the Georgetown Municipality.
“Councillors, we have to ferret out and destroy that cancer from our municipality as to do otherwise, we would be abrogating our responsibility to the citizens of the city and by extension our contribution to the positive transformation and development of Guyana. This city must be restored to what it once was, that is, the Garden City of the Caribbean.
“We therefore must work with the central Government, the citizens of Georgetown and all other stakeholders as a testimony to the second resolve clause which states…that the council pledges its willingness to work with the new Government for the welfare of the people of Guyana,” said Andrews.

By Telesha Ramnarine