The long-awaited Local Government Commission is expected to be put in place in March next year, Minister of Communities Ronald Bulkan says.
“The commission is expected to become operational sometime in March,” Bulkan told Stabroek News last week. He said that provision for the funding of the Commission will be included in the 2016 budget and once the 2016 Appropriation Act is approved, it will allow for the establishment and functioning of the Commission.
Given government’s intention to lay the 2016 Budget in the National Assembly in January, Bulkan said that the