City Mayor Hamilton GreenIn a bid to recover much-needed revenue to maintain the City of Georgetown, the Mayor and City Council might soon be moving to sell the properties of defaulting tax payers.This disclosure was made by City Mayor Hamilton Green yesterday when he said that the municipality continues to operate in a cash-strapped state and therefore must find innovative ways to force tax payers to pay up what they owe to the City.Mayor Green, however, pointed out that even if all rates and taxes are paid up, there still would not be enough funds to alleviate the problems faced by the municipality.Currently, the municipality has engaged an intensified rates collection process, which according to Mayor Green mandates residents to pay up their taxes within 14 days or face the courts. About ten such defaulters were taken before the court yesterday, Mayor Green added.But,Cheap China Jerseys, according to Mayor Green, while the most drastic action that could be taken against residents is to confiscate and sell their properties, the process is in fact a very slow one.It was for this very reason, the mayor related, that he had for more than 10 years been requesting that a court be set up exclusively for municipal issues. According to Green, with a municipal court, matters that concern the municipality could be addressed with much haste, even allowing for the timely payment of rates and taxes and to facilitate any necessary court action against defaulters.Mayor Green pointed out that, instead of addressing the need for the municipal court, discussions were instead engaged for a Traffic court.Without the introduction of an exclusive municipal court,Cheap NBA Jerseys Authentic, Green said, it would be a near impossible effort to seize and sell the properties of the major defaulters.In the meantime, the mayor noted, there is no choice but to endure the slothfulness of the court in an attempt to garner the much-needed finances to manage the City.However, Mayor Green is of the belief that the municipality will continue to be short-changed if the new evaluation of the City does not come into play.According to Green, the new evaluation,Cheap NFL Jerseys, which comes under the purview of the Ministry of Finance, is the key to boosting the City’s revenue base to some extent.In addition to properties being undervalued,cheap jerseys nfl wholesale, Green said, there are many properties in the City that have been transformed from residential to commercial purposes; thus some residents, while they are paying their taxes, are paying far less than should be paid.The City Council has been saddled with an enormous debt situation, which it seems unable to reverse.The mayor had on numerous occasions cited the need for the City to expand its revenue base, a factor which was highlighted by the Interim Management Committee which had some years ago controlled the maintenance of the City.But, according to the mayor, Government continues to suppress the operation of the municipality,Cheap NHL Jerseys China, a practice which he noted is inconsistent with modern-day governance.

– Dr. CarringtonPublic servants must be made aware of their integral role in advancing the objectives and implementing the decisions of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM), Secretary-General Dr. Edwin Carrington said yesterday.He was at the time addressing the Board of Directors of the Caribbean Centre for Development Administration (CARICAD) which has convened for its 29th meeting at the CARICOM Secretariat.CARICAD focuses, through various interventions, on upgrading and strengthening the managerial capability of the public sector for the more effective implementation of public policy across the region.Since its establishment in 1980,Wholesale China Jerseys, CARICAD has been working to advance public sector reform, particularly in providing technical assistance to support member governments in their quest to improve efficiency through initiatives which seek to transform and modernize the public sector.While acknowledging the use of technology in improving the efficiency of the public sector and in connecting the region, Secretary-General Carrington noted that the other core factor of the regional integration arrangements was the human resource of the Community.Emphasising the critical role of the public service in advancing regional integration, Dr. Carrington added that public officers were at the forefront, in a position to make a difference, whether negative or positive.“Unless there is a commitment to the idea of regional integration by the people on the frontline, no amount of technology will move the process forward,” he stated.It was against this backdrop,NFL Jerseys Authentic China, the Secretary-General said, that the Conference of Heads of Government at its 30th Regular Meeting had agreed on the importance of training and sensitising of public officers, particularly immigration officers.Dr. Carrington however added that this training and sensitising does not only apply to immigration officers but to all public officials, and this was critical, he added, since the implementation of the Community’s decisions ‘lies essentially in the province of Member States.’“The CARICOM Secretariat and the regional institutions which have their role in facilitating and co-ordinating, cannot implement at the national level; whether it is in agriculture, free movement, contingent rights, security and investment,” he said.The Secretary-General added that there must be an understanding and acceptance that national goals are not distinct from the Community’s goals, and that there was no contemplation of replacing the national public services with a gigantic regional public service.“The objective is for a seamless space that will strengthen the parts to ensure a solid whole,” he stated.To achieve this goal, the Secretary-General posited that national public services across the Community should all be operating on the same basic principles in the conduct of their duties.The work of CARICAD became more significant in establishing coherence and harmonisation among its stakeholders to redound to the benefit of the integration process, he added.“Our quest for a viable, prosperous,Wholesale Baseball Jerseys China, secure and sustainable community for all,Cheap Adidas NHL Jerseys, requires all hands on desk,” Dr. Carrington said.CARICAD has a current membership of 14 countries: Antigua and Barbuda, The Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, British Virgin Islands,Cheap NBA Jerseys China, Dominica, Grenada, Guyana, Jamaica, Montserrat, St. Lucia, St. Kitts and Nevis, St. Vincent and the Grenadines and Trinidad and Tobago.Anguilla and the Turks and Caicos Islands are associate members.

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