Tuesday February 9th, 2010
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Navas probes errant UNC councillors
Published: 6 Aug 2009
A day after she selected PNM councillors to head borough subcommittees, Chaguanas Mayor Natasha Navas has now trained her guns on delinquent UNC councillors, vowing that all those who collected salaries without serving will be made to reimburse the borough. In an interview yesterday, Navas said she had information that UNC councillors who served as chairmen of subcommittees did not perform well. “I am concerned that some UNC councillors have served on subcommittees as chairmen but they have never even held meetings…Yet they continued to receive payments even though they did not do any work,” Navas alleged.
She said there was a process for dealing with such inefficiency. “The borough will be investigating this, and if it is found that certain councillors were being paid and they have not served, then by all means they will be made to reimburse the borough,” Navas said.
However, Deputy Mayor Orlando Nagassar said: “That is not true at all…What would have happened is that some meetings had to be cancelled because of a lack of quorum to start.” He said if the borough was investigating delinquent councillors, then Navas would have to investigate her own “Ramjack” colleagues.
Nagessar said every councillor who served as a chairman of a subcommittee received an additional $700 per month for each subcommittee he chaired. He said some PNM councillors would receive an additional $2,100 in salary per month because of the appointments. But Navas said there must be dedication, commitment and efficiency in all local government affairs. The mayor advises that if councillors know that they cannot be committed to their duties, then they should resign. She also defended her decision to appoint PNM councillors—Patricia Baptiste and Bernard Bailey—to head four subcommittees at the borough. Bailey was put in charge of Festivals and Culture as well as Facilities Management, while Baptiste was put to head Social Services and Youth Development.
who she? ajfyzabadbutlertown
who she?
ajfyzabadbutlertown
....this political virgin is
....this political virgin is being initiated into the black arts of partisanship by master schemers....don't want to call names but their initials are RAMJACK......
zando, thanks for your
zando, thanks for your comment, I agree with you.
Mayor Navas is in-charge of
Mayor Navas is in-charge of the Borough of Chaguanas and the UNC members must get use to it . Deputy mayor Nagessar seems to be worried about the Mayor's statement about dealing with inefficiencies but the investigations will reveal the truth . Nagessar knows that the councillors whom he is referring as as "RamJack councillors" are really UNC members who also needs change in the party .
"Navas said there must be dedication, commitment and efficiency in all local government affairs. The mayor advises that if councillors know that they cannot be committed to their duties, then they should resign" .
Take warning Nagessar , if you cannot commit to serving the Borough and people of Chaguanas , then you should resign . Panday and his minions are bent on getting rid of Mayor Navas and Jack Warner , MP for Chaguanas West - but they will fail , miserably . The Borough of Chaguanas will become the City of Chaguanas and when the Local Government Elections are called , Natasha Navas will become an elected member and continue as the Mayor .
"Where there is NO VISION , the PEOPLE PERISH" . Atw - Barbados .
So if you served as the
So if you served as the chairman of a subcommitee you got a salary then recieved an additional $700 per month for each subcommitee. Let them resign or sack them, but first expose them for what they are, parasites.
Miss Navas every morning that I wake I hope these are the headlines that you will make, not the ones that they expect.
Expose them and the corruption that is deep inside that borough. There is more to come.
The young is not concerned with the wicked past and how it was. They should only care about the(their) future and how it should be.
So one can only hope that
So one can only hope that this approach of asking inefficient performers to reimburse the state extends to the government itself: can both Ministers Manning, Joseph, Narace, Imbert, Piggott, Le Genre, Dick-Forde, Browne, Enil and Regrello, plus their predecessors for the previous terms also kindly reimburse the state for monies earned over the past 7 years!
Do not play games with the
Do not play games with the UNC, leave that up to me, you better look at the PNM. Games will cause people to poke holes through you, not the UNC.
wiggins and your
wiggins and your sidekick,diana, what do you have with the new mayor of chaguanas?? You know her or what? You both write so much hateful rubbish, perhaps you are getting paid for this!
try not to take up so much space on this site, you are both sickening
Sorry don’t know her, but
Sorry don’t know her, but the day she ticks me off I will tell you who her first boy friend was.