It was on August 19 this year that I chose as my topic for this column capacity building. I quoted from the introductory lecture by Mr Keith Miller at a workshop somewhere in the Caribbean on ‘Capacity building strategies for local government.’ With local government elections in the offing I have no apologies for continuing to quote from Mr Miller’s excellent presentation.
The quotation on August 19 ended with these words:
“Therefore the impetus to centralize is offered as the only way we can get things done.” I continue:
“We need to effectively lobby the sources of power to forcefully bring to their attention that the excuses that were purported and their promotion of centralization because of this lack of capacity are not rue