KINGSTON MAYOR Desmond McKenzie says he hopes to lead a bipartisan team of Kingston and St Andrew Corporation (KSAC) Councillors to discuss, with the Minister of Local Government and Environment Dean Peart, the city’s preparation for Cricket World Cup 2007.

The mayor told Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) dele-gates attending Sunday”s Area Council One meeting at the Meadowbrook High School, St Andrew, that after months of being ignored he was taking this approach to ensure that his concerns were not seen as partisan and political.

“I have decided to take a different approach, since when I talk they see me as a JLP man. The approach that I am going to take is to ask the Minister of Local Government to receive a bipartisan committee of the council to sit down with him to talk about the city and how we will address the World Cup cricket,” the mayor said.

He said he had also written letters to Prime Minister Portia Simpson Miller on more than one occasion highlighting the need to deal with the preparations for the event as a priority.

“This government con-tinues to play games with the city. I know that the prime minister said some time ago that everything is in place for World Cup Cricket. I understand that she has said that, she has spoken to all the people involved. I don’t know who she has spoken to, she has not spoken to me, because she hasn’t even answered the letters that I have written to her,” the mayor said.