Video: Local gov’t polls key to reviving city – Green

Mayor Hamilton Green speaking at the public forum on the city yesterday as a section of the crowd that turned up looks on. (Photograph by Arian Browne)

Georgetown Mayor Hamilton Green says that local government elections is imperative if any progress is to be made in restoring the city to its former glory as the absence of polls is effectively holding back domestic as well as international assistance.

At a packed public forum to update stakeholders about the “actual situation” at the Georgetown Municipality at City Hall, Green revealed that persons overseas on several occasions expressed interest in making donations and providing other forms of assistance, but only after local government elections are held.

He said the fact that local government elections have not been held since 1994 is a