Introduction: Stabroek News has invited the People’s Progressive Party/Civic (PPP/C), A Partnership for National Unity and the Alliance for Change to submit a weekly column on local government and related matters. The PPP/C has declined the offer.
A Partnership for National Unity (APNU) welcomes the announcement by Cabinet Secretary Dr Roger Luncheon on April 23, 2014 that the central government will commit a substantial amount towards the rehabilitation of the Georgetown City Hall.
This particular intervention is long-overdue. APNU had called for interventions and initiatives such as this over two months ago. It is a sad reflection on central government policy that this heritage building of national importance has been allowed to deteriorate to such a condition that the Cabinet Secretary could have determined that the building could “collapse at any time”.
The Stabroek News, since the report of this intervention, has also devoted an editorial to it and the building in particular. The interested public
