Georgetown clean-up will not be handled by city council – Whittaker

Local Government Norman Whittaker speaking to the media outside the Council Chambers yesterday after exiting the Statutory Meeting. (GINA photo)

Local Government Norman Whittaker yesterday said that he would have to be “dumb and stupid” to give the City Council the $500 million that had been allocated to clean up Georgetown.

“I can’t… I am not about to make funds available to City Council when the information, the records in my possession tell me that they have been misspending public funds. I have got to be dumb and stupid to make those funds available to them. I am not going to,” he said.

In March, during the budget presentation, Finance Minister Dr Ashni Singh had said that $1 billion will be spent on a