The Georgetown City Council under the mayorship of Hamilton Green, a first cousin of LFS Burnham, has become an anti-gov't institution using garbage pile up as a strategy of weakening the gov't and damaging the country's image internationally. The GNI forum has supporters of this dirty politics. They have been on a rampage to tarnish the image of Guyana and have us believe that not a thing is being done to improve sanitation and housing. Home construction is at a record high and gov't spending on maintaining a clean environment is far more than it has ever been. 

Govt. wants a health crisis in City – Mayor Green

“…Champion of the Earth should’ve volunteered assistance”

The current take-over of the city dumpsite by the administration must be viewed in the context of the recent statement by Minister of Local Government and Regional Development, Kellawan Lall, that he would be glad for a health crisis in the City as a result of the garbage pile up. This is according to City Mayor, Hamilton Green, who said that the government wanted the situation to get to a crisis level. He said that he has been pleading with the administration for assistance for a long time. He even chided Minister of Transport and Hydraulics, Robeson Benn, who during a recent visit to the site, lamented the inaction of the council as it relates to the management of the dumpsite. Green said that Benn’s comments are “unfortunate if not dishonest.” He reiterated that the Council is short of money and equipment. “We lack the money and machines…This is what the public should know.” At present there are two extra bulldozers and excavators which the Government brought in the day after Mark Benschop and Freddie Kissoon were arrested for protesting the situation at the dumpsite. “If you go back to Lall’s statement that he would be glad if there is a health crisis …it has to be seen in that context.”

Mitwah,

Stop pushing Knew Nation (KN) propaganda. It is dirty as Hammie Green's Georgetown.

The nauseating stench  is to be blamed entirely on the PPP/C. It's not only in GT. When was the last time you visited Guyana and see with your own eyes and smell with your own nose?

Yet another reminder: Hamilton Green is a toothless mayor. The PPP regime made sure of that by giving real power to the Minister of Local Government and the Town Clerk.

Carol Sooba has the power to hire waste disposal people and machinery and pay them. Green lacks that power.

Stop spewing nonsense about KN propaganda. KN is a newspaper reporting the news. KN is not a propaganda tool like Chronicle, Mirror and Guyana Times.

and still Georgetown is a mess. The PPP is a failure and they have made Guyana a failure.

These failures have jack to do with 20 years of mismanagement and gross theft by the PPP which continues unbridled today.

I don't know why admin/moderator deleted that thread on Goolsarran's assessment of the Information Communications Technology [ICT] fiasco.

QUOTE: '“It is clear that the funds earmarked for the government’s ICT programme have been fully exhausted. However, the main objective of advancing “fully into e-government mode, hooking up our schools and our police stations and everything else so that we can deploy technology in the service of our people,” as stated by the former President (Bharrat Jagdeo), is far from its realization and remains a dream unfulfilled,” Goolsarran wrote in his Stabroek News column which appears today.'

As I pointed out in another thread yesterday, capital expenditure is one thing. Getting full results from said expenditure is something else. Capital expenditure per se is no reliable measure of progress.

This particular report on the ICT programme, with unanswered questions, is yet another example of wanton waste of money by the corrupt PPP regime.

I've been saying all along that Gilbakka is an imposter. He is a typical East Indian stooge who jumps to defend the PNC every chance he gets.

You're a desperate man, Billy Ram. Your ad hominem attack will not deter me. Stating a verifiable fact is not tantamount to defending the PNC.

Prove that Hamilton Green has more power than Carol Sooba. Bring out facts.

You are still to understand that the way for your PPP to win hearts, minds and votes is not to blame the opposition but to boast about its achievements in government.