Mayor of Georgetown Hamilton Green has been appointed as Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Central Housing and Planning Authority (CH&PA).
The announcement was published in the October 3 edition of the Official Gazette. In addition, Meshel Austin and Winston Hope have also been appointed directors on the Board.
Questions have swirled around the CH&PA particularly as it relates to land for private housing schemes. It was also at the centre of a much publicised scheme prior to the May 11 general elections for the transfer of monies from the Guyana Geology and Mines Commission.
Green, 80, recently told Stabroek News that he is not going to be running for the municipal post again. He has served as Mayor since 1996. He has continued to hold office due to continuous delays in the holding of local government elections, which have not been conducted since 1994.
Green, who was Prime Minister under the PNC government before a split from that party in 1993, contested local government elections under his own party, the Good & Green Guyana, and he was voted in as mayor.
Green told Stabroek News that he hoped to serve the country further but ruled out running for mayor again as he believes that a young person should be found who is willing to take on the mantle and run with the city and “make Georgetown and Guyana a great place.”
