On the issue of local government financing, the May 6th 2003 constructive engagement agreement between President Bharrat Jagdeo and Leader of the Opposition Mr. Robert Corbin stated – among other things – that the parties would develop: “a suitable system and appropriate procedures for compulsory annual fiscal transfers to the local government organs.”
For the system to be suitable and appropriate it must be related to the problem as perceived by those who sought the remedy. Regardless of the justification of the PNCR’s position, what motivated this demand was the party’s belief that the PPP/C government was arbitrary and discriminatory
