Wishing away Mayor Green and his Councillors

On Old Year’s Night some of the church-going citizens of Georgetown were reportedly heard praying urgently that on the stroke of midnight a brisk breeze would descend on the capital and that all of the garbage in the city would be caught up…..like a rapture……and swept away………and they were praying too that Mayor Green and his Councillors would not be spared by the rapture……that they too would become caught up and retired quietly to their respective homes.

As it happens the Almighty does things in his own time and a new year has dawned and the garbage, the Mayor and his Councillors are all still