The sudden death of City Councillor Junior Garrett has left open one of the 15 Constituency seats on the Georgetown City Council a mere 11 months before Local Government Elections (LGE) are legally required.
Regulations governing the elections at the level of Local Authorities specify that a by-election is to be held to fill such a vacancy.
Garrett, a longstanding member of the People’s National Congress (PNCR), was narrowly elected to represent Constituency 3 (Bel Air Gardens, Bel Air Springs, Prashad Nagar, North East & North West Campellville) at the March 2016 LGE. He was able to secure 794 of the 1653 of the valid votes cast coming out ahead of the People’s Progressive Party/Civic’s Ramchandra Kissoon who secured 722 votes. Andrew Ramcharran of Team Benschop For Mayor secured the remaining 137 votes.
