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Oct 19, 2018 Letters
DEAR EDITOR,
With time ticking on the life of the reviled Mayor and Councillors of the City of Georgetown, maybe the candidates who are now seeking to be elected to this municipality can use the playbook of the outgoing Mayor as a guide of what one should never do if he or she is elected to be the next Mayor of our capital.
In the interest of municipal democratization, rather than hogging all three terms to which one can be elected as Mayor, in the three-year term of the Council, the next Mayor should allow for rotation, whereby other Councillors are given an opportunity to serve as Mayor rather than behave as though they have a monopoly on the position on good ideas, creativity, innovation, decision-making capabilities, integrity and passion when you do not.
The next Mayor, rather than riding around all day long in an expensive sports utility vehicle paid for by the citizenry, should get out and walk around or ride a bicycle around the various wards of the city and interact with the residents, vendors and other business persons so that they could have their hands on the pulse of the citizenry rather than your head in the clouds.
The new Mayor should restrain his or herself from undertaking innumerable luxury trips abroad with many cohorts in tow, without even bringing back a spade to help the municipal worker to dig a drain. The new Mayor rather than jetting off to exotic cities in the farthest corners of the world, staying at five star hotels and dining at plush restaurants, with no benefits to the city or citizenry, should instead spend their time in municipal markets, visiting koker operators, overseeing the city’s main departments, working to alleviate the suffering of the poor, the mentally ill and the homeless in the city.
Our capital’s next Chief Citizen should work to end nepotism, cronyism and favoritism at City Hall. They should enforce tender board procedures and reduce Council’s bloated human resource structure.
Our next Mayor should firmly slam the door shut on the notorious parking meter arrangement, bringing to an end this crooked fiasco. And they should renounce all of the profligate trappings, such as bodyguards, chauffeurs, personal assistants, static security at their residences, porta-potties at mind blowing rates in their yards, and special allowances for serving on special sub committees of Council. They should just serve.
We need the next Mayor to be a spirited, energetic and strong young person whose heart is filled with life, enthusiasm, zeal and dynamism; whose soul is full of ambition, aspiration and vigor and who would have great goals for our city, rising and aspiring to reach them until he or she eventually arrives at the destination of restoring Georgetown to its former status of being the Garden City of the Caribbean.
Best regards.
Deodarie Putulall
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