{"id":19214,"date":"2024-04-29T14:50:15","date_gmt":"2024-04-29T14:50:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/?p=19214"},"modified":"2024-04-29T14:50:17","modified_gmt":"2024-04-29T14:50:17","slug":"ppp-c-criticizes-mcc-over-infrastructure-neglect","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/ppp-c-criticizes-mcc-over-infrastructure-neglect\/","title":{"rendered":"PPP\/C Criticizes M&amp;CC Over Infrastructure Neglect"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n\n<p>By Samuel  Sukhnandan<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Georgetown Mayor and City Council (M&amp;CC) faced renewed criticism from the ruling PPP\/C party, with General Secretary Dr. Bharrat Jagdeo accusing the council of neglecting the city&#8217;s infrastructure.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mayor Alfred Mentore&#8217;s claim that the government owed the council approximately $6 billion in rates and taxes was refuted by Dr. Jagdeo. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Instead, he pointed out that it&#8217;s the M&amp;CC that owes significant sums to various organizations, including $2.1 billion to the city council itself and debts to entities like the National Insurance Scheme (NIS).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Dr. Jagdeo emphasized that the central government&#8217;s spending of over $20 billion in Georgetown was necessitated by the council&#8217;s failure to protect and maintain critical infrastructure in the capital city. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He highlighted ongoing infrastructure projects, including the recent signing of contracts worth over $1 billion for the restoration of 29 Sophia Roads through the Ministry of Public Works.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The criticism underscores ongoing tensions between the M&amp;CC and the central government over the management of Georgetown&#8217;s infrastructure and finances. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As the debate continues, the city&#8217;s residents hope for swift and effective action to address the pressing issues facing their community.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Samuel Sukhnandan The Georgetown Mayor and City Council (M&amp;CC) faced renewed criticism from the ruling PPP\/C party, with General Secretary Dr. Bharrat Jagdeo accusing the council of neglecting the&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":19215,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[350,351],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19214","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-politics"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19214","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19214"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19214\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19216,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19214\/revisions\/19216"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19215"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19214"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19214"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19214"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}