Georgetown Mayor Hamilton Green on Friday said that the President’s non-assent to the Local Government (Amendment) Bill has effectively left the city council at the mercy of the Minister of Local Government, who he accused of micromanaging the city through the acting Town Clerk Carol Sooba.
“That bill is the one that removes from the minister the awesome authority from managing the city through the Town Clerk,” Green said at a press conference on Friday.
“We are facing a government that has reverted to its old communist ideological position, a Stalin like control of every facet of our country. We all want elections as quickly as possible and what we are facing is that the PPP is not comfortable with any movement which makes a reality of the constitution, and to do what is done in any democratic society…where the
