Town Clerk standoff, verbal abuse and a bomb scare…

Talk to the hand: PNC Councillor Monica Thomas during the verbal altercation with PPP Councillor Kamla Devi Ross yesterday at City Hall.

City Hall shenanigans continued yesterday with a Town Clerk standoff and at least two verbal altercations and came to a head with a bomb scare which forced the evacuation of the building.

At the Statutory Meeting scheduled yesterday, Public Relations Officer Royston King, who was installed by the council last week as the new acting Town Clerk took up his seat at the designated table for the Town Clerk. No sooner had he done so than government appointed acting Town Clerk Carol Sooba charged in and asserted “…The legal Town Clerk is here and there is not going to be a statutory meeting.”

However, an inexorable King remained seated. Seeing that King was not to be