Nandlall slams City Council’s rate cut for political parties as ‘shameless, vulgar’

The Georgetown Town Council recently passed a motion that would result in political parties paying reduced rates and taxes but Attorney General Anil Nandlall said such a move is both shameless and vulgar, and does not respond to the needs of ordinary citizens.

The Attorney General, on Tuesday night, reminded Guyanese that the Georgetown Mayor and City Council often complains of an inability to execute many of its responsibilities due to limited funds.

Those responsibilities include garbage collection, a sore issue for residents of the capital city.

And he reminded the public that the work of the City Council is supported tremendously by subventions from the People’s Progressive Party Civic (PPP/C) central government.

So the City Council’s move to pass such a motion, Nandlall said, seems illogical.

In fact, he suggested that the motion was only presented and subsequently passed by the APNU+AFC majority run council because those political parties cannot afford to pay the sums owed.

“I have not seen in recent times a more vulgar and shameless act,” the Attorney General said during his weekly ‘Issues in the News’ programme.

He added, “They are not concerned with reducing rates and taxes of poor people… but they don’t want to reduce rates and taxes for the very poor people whose cause they claim to champion but they want to reduce rates and taxes for political parties.”

PPP/C councillors voted against the motion and have spoken out against it publicly but APNU+AFC councillors have a majority on the council. As such, the motion was successfully passed.