National local gov’t conference boycotted again by PPP/C

Heads of local government organs who participated at the NRDCC meeting along with President David Granger (seated fourth, from right), who is flanked by Minister of Communities Ronald Bulkan and Minister within the Ministry of Communities Valerie Patterson-Yearwood. Minister of Public Affairs Dawn Hastings-Williams is seated at fourth from left. (Ministry of the Presidency photo)

The Ministry of Communities yesterday hosted the second annual meeting of the National Regional Development Consultative Committee (NRDCC), which was once again marred by the absence of representatives from those regional councils controlled by the opposition People’s Progressive Party/Civic (PPP/C) and President David Granger called it administrative sabotage.

The meeting was hosted under the theme “Strengthening regional governance through leadership and human resource development.”

During the opening of the meeting, Minister of Communities Ronald Bulkan hailed the committee as a step towards increasing the efficiency of regional administration structure and advised those Regional Democratic Council (RDC) Chairpersons who were absent that they could either participate or be left out.