Dear Editor,

The Linden Citizens Committee (LCC) had requested the IMC Chairman of the Linden Town Council to make public a detailed financial report of the 2009 Linden Town Week event to the residents of Linden and its environs, after he had failed to do so at a telephone call-in programme on May 6, 2009.

The Chairman appeared again on television in the said month of May 2009, when he delivered a report which was not detailed. He informed residents that he had collected two million, nine hundred thousand dollars ($2,900,000) as revenue from the 2009 Town Week activities. He then went on to disclose receipt of two million, seven hundred thousand dollars ($2,700,000) as revenue from the 2008 Town Week event.

This is the first time in the thirteen-year history of the Town Day/Week that such financial figures were made public as a report for the residents of the community.

The Linden Citizens Committee views the report as being incomplete, and calls upon the Chairman of the Linden Town Council to fulfil his obligation by presenting a detailed financial report of the 2009 Town Week which will reflect: (a) Where the income derived from to build infrastructure such as booths for the vendors, etc; (b) What the stakeholders’ contribution was; and (c) what the expenditure was.

Yours faithfully,
Maurice Noble
Chairman Linden Citizens Committee