Greene
Howard Walker, Staff Reporter
AFTER A five-year stint with the Kingston and St. Andrew Corporation (KSAC), Town Clerk Errol Greene will be resigning to take up the position of chief executive officer at the Kingston City Centre Improvement Company (KCCIC), The Gleaner has learnt.
The KCCIC is a newly-formed organisation with a mandate to transform downtown Kingston, mainly with private sector funding through equity and bonds to be issued in Jamaica and to the overseas Jamaican community.
Mr. Greene would neither confirm nor deny his imminent departure from the KSAC, but in an earlier interview with The Gleaner three weeks ago, hinted that he was considering options elsewhere.
Meanwhile, Desmond McKenzie, the Mayor of Kingston, said he was not aware of Greene's imminent departure. "I don't know anything. Sometimes the media must not pay attention to certain things."
Mr. Greene has described his five years at the KSAC as challenging.
He played a key role, alongside the Mayor, in ridding downtown Kingston of street vendors making the area cleaner.
The KSAC last year, embarked on the removal of hundreds of illegal signs across the Corporate Area. This was a renewed effort to recover millions of dollars lost from the display of unauthorised advertising.
Mr. Greene sees among his successes, the winning of the eight-year battle earlier this year, to have the $16 million unapproved Auburn Court located on South Avenue, St. Andrew demolished. That battle cost the KSAC $5 million, of which Mr. Greene said was worth every penny.
Prior to his appointment as Town Clerk, Greene was an executive at the Jamaica Stock Exchange.
The KCCIC's short-term plan includes the following:
The construction of a new transportation centre between Port Royal Street and the end of the existing Marcus Garvey Drive and the removal of the buses from the Parade/St. William Grant Park area. The upgrading of the entire market district and the return of order to vending and commerce in general downtown. The upgrading of St. William Grant Park to a national park of which we can all be proud. The development of an entertainment and shopping centre to cater to the needs of local and overseas visitors linked to a redeveloped craft village (i.e., the existing craft market will be redeveloped). The development by tender of Pier I and Pier II to receive ferry passengers from Portmore, Port Royal and from cruise ships.
