The PPP/C damages and disparages local democratic organs

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The People’s Progressive Party/Civic (PPP/C) administration’s appetite for hypocrisy and duplicity appears to be insatiable. The 2014 Budget debates offered an opportunity for the PPP/C to demonstrate its commitment to the construct of local government, as well as the constitutional guarantee of local democracy as embedded in its provision of autonomy of local democratic organs.

PPP/C spokespersons from the Minister of Local Govern-ment, however, engaged in mischievous misrepresentations and what is now their standard fare of vitriol and vilification of the opposition.

Former Minister Bibi Shadick, for example, shortly after making disparaging comments against the people of Linden and of their electricity tariffs