No need to patronise Georgetown Municipality

Dear Editor,
Ever since taking office, the new Government has been uncovering a nauseating amount of corruption, looting, and substantial criminal activity in various government offices, state corporations, and public entities. And it is every decent person’s hope that those persons who are found guilty of such wrongdoings would be dealt with condignly.
And then there is the Georgetown City Council. The Council is known for decades, but, alas, the new Government seems reluctant to go in and clean out the Augean Stable there, preferring instead to handle them with kid gloves. Indeed, we see quite a bit of dialogue being undertaken by the Minister of Local Government and Region Development and officials of the Georgetown Municipality about the ministry supporting the municipality in the fulfillment of its mandate to the citizenry.
I hope that does not mean giving them more money to spend, or it shall end up just how the purchasing of new vehicles took precedence over repairs to the dilapidated City Hall building.
Quite seriously, when are the hard questions going to be asked of the Council? When will a forensic audit be ordered there? When will the pensioners – who have retired from the Council years now, but have not been paid their gratuities and pensions – receive their gratuities and pensions? When will the nepotism, cronyism, and favouritism there end? When will the bloated payroll be reduced? When will they fog for mosquitoes, reopen the Abattoir, fix the roads, de bush the cemetery, pay public health visits to yards in the city, repair bridges, clear the municipal markets of rodents and vectors, re-open shuttered day care centres and clinics, replace nonfunctional street lights, impound stray animals etc?
There is simply no need to patronise the Georgetown Municipality.

Sincerely,
Modi Sankar