APNU wants ‘illegal’ Corriverton IMC disbanded

APNU delegation at Corriverton: Left to right are Everett Harewood (former Mayor of Corriverton) Rishee Thakur (Candidate for the APNU 2011 National Elections) Agnes Macdonald (Former PNC Councillor of Corriverton) Ronald Bulkan (APNU member of Parliament and Shadow Minister of Local Government)  Verda Lyken (Former PNC Councillor of Coriverton Municipality) Fitz O’Brien (Citizen of Corriverton) and Pandit Jagdip Persaud (Former PNC Councillor of Corriverton).

The Corriverton Interim Management Committee (IMC) Town Clerk, Narendra Sookram, was on Friday handed a petition by A Partnership for National Unity (APNU) signed by over 600 persons from Corriverton calling for the dissolution of the IMC, deeming the body illegal and unconstitutional.

When contacted on Saturday, Minister of Local Government, Ganga Persaud, speaking to this newspaper via telephone from Georgetown, said that