The opposition PPP/C yesterday staged protests over the government’s delay in establishing the Local Government Commission, for which the administration is still to identify its nominees.
The PPP/C, which picketed outside both the Ministry of the Presidency and the Ministry of Communities, yesterday charged that the delay is facilitating an attempt by the government to control local government bodies by completing the appointments of new Town Clerks and overseers in new local authorities.
Minister of Communities Ronald Bulkan, in a September interview with the Stabroek News, had committed to