The 21-day timeframe in which President Donald Ramotar is constitutionally required to indicate his intention or lack thereof to assent to the four local government bills has not yet lapsed as he was still to receive any of the bills up to last Friday .
The bills—the Local Government Commission Bill, the Local Government (Amendment) Bill, the Municipal and District Councils (Amendment) Bill and the Fiscal Transfers Bill–were passed by the National Assembly on August 7, after which Clerk of the National Assembly Sherlock Isaacs and his staff, together with the Parliamentary Counsel, started preparing them to be sent to the Attorney General’s Chambers to receive their assent certificates.
The bills, up to last Friday, remained with the AG’s Chambers. Stabroek News was unable the
