Dear Editor,
Hearing the incessant cries that more money is needed, emanating from the Georgetown Municipality, one wonders if they would ever be satisfied with whatever revenue they receive. It is a totally bankrupt institution which has racked up debt and credit everywhere.
They cried out for a container tax, and even though they are not entitled to it, the shipping companies give them millions and millions of dollars extra revenue each month.
They earn a considerable amount of revenue from the Abattoir, yet, for over ten years, they are still to acquire a stun gun to humanely slaughter animals.
They earn millions of dollars each month from the municipal markets, yet these markets must be the most rat-infested, dirty, unsecure, dark, unsafe markets in the world.
They are now charging separately for refuse collection, which is double taxation, as property rates also cater for refuse collection; yet Georgetown is a garbage city, with a few old garbage trucks barely crawling around town.
There is a black hole at City Hall that can never be filled.
Just look at the Kitty Market. What has happened to the grandiose and fanciful ideas of the Town Clerk, who last promised to have it completed and opened to vendors by mid-July 2017; who said that they had received more than 170 applications from citizens who wish to set up new stalls in the market’s ground floor; and that it would feature a traditional health centre, an office for rates and taxes, and even space for the community councillor.
I hope their plan is not for the central Government to bail them out and complete that structure, or to step in and take over that market. The limited repairs done so far are riddled with faults.
Sincerely,
Shanta Singh
