The confrontation between the Government and the Georgetown City Council has gone on for far too long and should now come to an end. The Government, having overall responsibility for the welfare of all the citizens of Guyana, including of Georgetown, and being the senior party, ought to take the responsibility for ending the decades old stand-off. The long-standing antagonism subsided for a brief period when Ranwell Jordan of the PNC was elected Mayor and Philomena Sahoye-Shury of the PPP as Deputy Mayor in 1995. The agreement was that the parties would change places halfway into the mayoral term. The arrangement collapsed when Jordan refused to resign at the time when Sahoye-Shury was due to replace him. This agreement fell victim, like all other agreements before and after it, including an agreement to collaborate for the election of a Mayor for Region 8 in 2006, to the enduring grip of the drive for dominance in our politics.
