Dear Editor,
It is utterly incomprehensible how the Town Clerk of Georgetown, Royston King, after committing all of those blunders, could still be allowed to sit at his desk and continue to do his daily routines to the detriment of the well-being of the capital city and all of the citizens visiting and residing therein.
All over the public sector, and more so the private sector, administrators like him have been disciplined, have been removed from their posts and/or were given the pink slip for abuses of a far less serious nature than those that he has committed and continues to commit. Why is this so? Does he have a godfather?
Let us examine the parking meter fiasco as one example of so many. His very signing of this appalling contract without the fiat of the Council should warrant his dismissal. His senseless claim that the initiative was approved by the previous Council is laughable at best, as that approval would have expired with the life of the last Council coming to an end, if not acted upon during their tenure. But more worrying is the fact that he has so far failed to produce any documented evidence to support this unsubstantiated claim.
His disregard of the orders of the Minister of Communities for the suspension of the parking meter contract should certainly result in him being fired. The arrogance of the Fantastic Four is just simply unbelievable. For them to receive some twisted legal advice and to just decide that the minister’s advice is null and void is just simply bizarre. Mind you, this is the same minister who had to implement the by-laws in the first place to allow the project to be initiated. Does he not, to their minds, have the power to stop what he started? How ill-advised are these people?
The Town Clerk’s visit to Mexico and Panama with the rest of the Fantastic Four, without the knowledge and consent of the Council after signing the dubious contract, which incidentally they have refused to share with the council, is clearly impertinent and shows his belief and that of the other three that they are above the rest of the Councillors and, indeed, have little regard for them.
What more egregious act must he undertake to be stopped?
With thanks,
Riley Matthews
