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Oct 17, 2017 News
The Georgetown Mayor and City Council, (M&CC) is expected to compensate at least two
persons, who were injured in manhole accidents.
This disclosure was made by Mayor Patricia Chase-Green during a statutory meeting held at City Hall yesterday.
Mayor Chase-Green said that the Council has reviewed the reports and statements provided by the victims and has decided to compensate them.
She had said that the Council has received letters from Jenny Boston, a 51-year-old woman, who fell into a poorly secured manhole at the Route 42 Minibus Park about a week ago.
Boston is the latest victim to suffer injuries after falling into a manhole located in Georgetown. The woman, a security officer from Henry Street, Werk-en-Rust Georgetown is nursing a broken left leg.
She said that she encountered the manhole while returning home from the Stabroek Market.
City Hall is tasked with securing the manholes across the city. As such, the woman is holding the City responsible for her injuries.
The other individual is a driver whose vehicle was stripped after it was seized by City Constabulary Officers.
The car owner is claiming $2M worth of damages after his vehicle was allegedly vandalised while in the possession of the City Constable Department.
Mayor Chase-Green made a special appeal to constabulary officers, not to harass street vendors for minor infractions.
She therefore noted that staff of the Georgetown Mayor and City Council has to be more careful in carrying out their work and dealing with the public following claims from citizens for millions of dollars in damages.
“Please let us be respectful to those persons offering to sell. We have to be careful how we are pulling in people who are selling lace and socks. We are getting too many complaints and the Council could not afford to bear additional financial burdens.”
The Mayor had warned that officers found damaging the property of citizens will be surcharged and penalised.
The M&CC had received a number of requests for compensation from two citizens, who are claiming millions of dollars as a result of acts, they claimed, were committed by officers of the municipality.
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