Green rubbishes vendor extortion allegations

The People’s Progressive Party/Civic (PPP/C) has accused Georgetown Mayor Hamilton Green of attempting to extort vendors in exchange for protection during possible elections unrest—a charge that the Chief Citizen has denied.

“Those claims are completely untrue, blatant lies, bizarre, [have] no basis of fact and outright ridiculous,” Green said at a press briefing called to rebut claims made by President Bharrat Jagdeo at a recent campaign meeting in Stewartville, West Demerara and which were repeated by Minister of Home Affairs Clement Rohee at a press