Although the installation of an Interim Management Committee (IMC) to manage the capital city is being considered, Local Government Minister Ganga Persaud yesterday denied that any steps have been taken to replace the Mayor and City Council (M&CC).
“The Central Government will always give thought and consideration to improve any system if it is not functioning in the manner it ought to and that includes the municipality of Georgetown,” Persaud told a news conference yesterday, while noting that procedures would have to be followed to set up an IMC. “That has not commenced as yet for the M&CC and I don’t know whether it will commence… There is no process which would have started to establish an IMC to replace the M&CC,” he said, though he acknowledged that the installation of an IMC is being considered.
Persaud’s statements came even as Georgetown Mayor Hamilton Green declared that he would not be removed from office, since he had been elected by
