By Jeff Trotman
If the people are allowed to meaningfully manage their own affairs at the local government level, Guyana Elections Commission (Gecom) commissioner Vincent Alexander says the central government could pay more attention to national problems and there would be less political partisanship and suspicion in communities.
However, although reform efforts were intended to place local government control back in the hands of people, Alexander told a public consultation in Linden on November 28 that all the proposed changes have not been implemented because the politicians still want some measure of control.
He was at the time delivering the feature address, entitled ‘Local Governance, Promise, Practice, Opportunity,’ at the
