Stabroek News has invited the People’s Progressive Party/Civic (PPP/C), A Partnership for National Unity (APNU) and the Alliance for Change to submit a weekly column on local government and related matters. The PPP/C has declined the offer. Only APNU has submitted a column this week.
The Stabroek News newspaper, beginning in early May 2014, carried daily on its front page, a comment relating to the absence of local government in the country. These comments point to the deplorable conditions that exist in communities countrywide and urge that local government elections (LGE) be held without further delay.
The comment on August 25, 2014 states: “Local government elections could help to end bad roads and clogged trenches. It is up to the PPP/C government.” While this is true, there is a danger of (a) citizens’ expectations as to the ability of the holding of LGE to repair broken communities may be over-inflated, and (b) the view that we cannot have some level of effective local
