Acting Town Clerk Carol Sooba has asked the Mayor and Councillors of Georgetown to continue working until the appointment of a new Town Clerk, in the face of the mayor’s attempt to have her removed from the post.
Sooba made the request at a meeting that was held on Monday with Mayor Hamilton Green and Junior Local Government Minister Norman Whittaker. Green had written to the minister calling for the immediate removal of Sooba who he described as acting “strange”.
A source told this newspaper that Minister Whittaker had said that the letter Sooba wrote in response to Green’s request for her to call a meeting, was disrespectful and he advised that the letter be withdrawn and an apology be made.
But Sooba said she needed time to consider the minister’s advice. And she asked, in the interim, to be allowed to continue working until a new Town Clerk is appointed in the next three weeks the source said.
In the letter that was sent to the minister, Green had asked “for immediate action to be taken if the situation is not to deteriorate into anarchy.”
The problem arose after Green asked the acting Town Clerk to call a meeting with the staff five days prior to date the meeting was scheduled for. Sooba had replied by way of a letter that she “cannot permit the staff of the municipality at such short notice to attend a meeting for the restoration of the city which you have significantly contributed to its deterioration…”
