Mayor Hamilton Green and city councillors yesterday alleged that acting Town Clerk Carol Sooba told an early morning committee meeting that all local government bodies across the country had been dissolved—a claim that Sooba later denied while accusing the council of being “mischievous.”
Green made the allegation at a hurriedly called press conference at his office and it is the latest chapter in the continuing power struggle between the council and government-appointee Sooba, which has also engaged the attention of the court.
The disclosure also comes amidst renewed calls for local government elections, last convened in
