Town Clerk, Candace Nelson has issued notices to remove with immediate effect to several persons who are living on a wharf owned by the Mayor and City Council, on Holmes Street, Georgetown. But the Mayor of Georgetown, Alfred Mentore has informed this newspaper that the notice to remove was not a council’s decision but rather was a unilateral decision by the Town Clerk.
Mentore expressed his concern with the Town Clerk’s action to issue the notice while explaining that it was a squatting issue. Mentore said that a statutory meeting was held the day before the notices were issued and the issue was never raised at the council. Mentore said he is cognisant of the sensitivity of the matter and said that matters of this nature require a discussion by the full council. Mentore disclosed that the matter will be ventilated at the next statutory meeting.