Dear Editor,
Today I witnessed the main reason why the Georgetown City Council is always broke and bankrupt. Whilst standing outside a popular hotel after having a meeting with a foreign delegation on Main Street, I observed the arrival of two gangs of workers from the Mayor and City Council, comprising weeders and sanitation workers. Soon after, I overheard the men retorting in loud and animated tones that the work they had been brought to do was already done by a popular contractor.
The major distress by the Council’s workers that were left to stand there without work and idle all day, was that this contractor was given all the work that they were employed to do and which they were doing for all the years, and more egregiously, he was being paid hundreds of millions of dollars, whilst they were receiving their paltry salaries weeks late each month, due to the bankrupt state of the Council.
Surely, the Council must know that they can’t ‘have their cake and eat it too’. If they are going to continue to pay their special contractor hundreds of millions of dollars to clean and maintain the city, then they should terminate the services of their own sanitation workers.
Of course, the only logical reason for pursuing such a course of action would be to fill the pockets of the contractor and, as a consequence, line the pockets of the ‘Big Ones’ at City Hall through kickbacks from this highly favoured contractor. This would be a heartless and brutish act, but it is not beyond the capacity of the greedy and merciless administrators at the Council.
Of course, what needs to be done is to get rid of this contractor who is bleeding the Council dry now that the clean-up for the Jubilee is over, and let the Council’s workers do the maintenance, seeing that the municipality is obligated to pay their workers anyway, and meeting their wages would no longer be an issue, seeing that they would save hundreds of millions of dollars with the dismissal of the said contractor.
Sincerely,
Mark Roopan
