RAD­HI­CA DE SIL­VA

Se­nior Mul­ti­me­dia Re­porter

rad­hi­ca.sookraj@guardian.co.tt

The much-an­tic­i­pat­ed mo­tion of no con­fi­dence against Siparia May­or Dood­nath Mayrhoo will not be heard this month, as UNC Mon De­sir coun­cil­lor Deryck Bowrin failed to pro­vide the re­quired sev­en days’ no­tice.

Ex­plain­ing the de­lay dur­ing an in­ter­view yes­ter­day, Bowrin ac­knowl­edged that the time­line for this month’s de­bate had lapsed.

“It will be de­bat­ed at the next statu­to­ry meet­ing next month. Don’t let the may­or rile you up like he wants me to file it on his tim­ing. I have to make sure I cov­er my bases, but I am still fil­ing the mo­tion,” Bowrin said.

How­ev­er, Mayrhoo ex­pressed sur­prise that the mo­tion would not be de­bat­ed this month.

“Coun­cil­lor Deryck Bowrin had in­di­cat­ed he would bring a no-con­fi­dence mo­tion at the end of this month. The time frame for bring­ing that mo­tion was last week, but no sev­en-day no­tice was giv­en. As a re­sult, the mo­tion will not be laid at the next statu­to­ry meet­ing on Wednes­day,” Mayrhoo ex­plained.

Mayrhoo, who must ap­prove the mo­tion, said he was ready to do so.

“I am wait­ing for it be­cause I have some is­sues I want to deal with when the de­bate hap­pens. I have ev­i­dence to pro­duce that will make your blood crawl, so I ea­ger­ly await the mo­tion of no con­fi­dence,” he added.

Mean­while, UNC Al­der­man Vic­tor Roberts ac­cused the may­or of act­ing as a “law un­to him­self.” Roberts said the dis­cord be­gan when the may­or arranged for a pri­vate back­hoe and truck to re­move ma­te­r­i­al from a gov­ern­ment stock­pile with­out coun­cil ap­proval.

“I want you to ask the may­or to pro­duce a doc­u­ment show­ing there was no equip­ment avail­able at the cor­po­ra­tion, forc­ing him to use pri­vate ma­chin­ery. If that was the case, it would have been doc­u­ment­ed,” Roberts said.

Roberts al­so de­nied claims that he and Bowrin had as­pi­ra­tions to be­come may­or.

“He should know that we are more qual­i­fied than him. He wears the gold chain proud­ly, but he should be care­ful he doesn’t end up with a pair of bracelets on his wrists that aren’t the same colour as his chain. The may­or can­not act as a law un­to him­self ... ” Roberts said.

An in­ves­ti­ga­tion has been launched in­to why out­dat­ed cor­po­ra­tion doc­u­ments were dumped in an il­le­gal stock­pile. Ac­cord­ing to a cor­po­ra­tion of­fi­cial, the doc­u­ments were in­fest­ed with cock­roach­es and could not be shred­ded. They were re­port­ed­ly or­dered to be dumped at the Guapo land­fill, but the dri­ver in­stead dis­posed of them at a site in Pa­lo Seco.