…PNCR uneasy with consecutive nature of meetsThe Local Government Task Force should recommence work on Monday. People’s National Congress Reform Vice Chairman Basil Williams, on Thursday, told media operatives that he was in receipt of a letter from Co Chairman of the Task Force, Clinton Collymore, signalling the recommencement of the task force meetings.This comes months after the task force was suspended in order for Collymore to take part in the People’s Progressive Party congress.Williams, however,Cheap Jerseys Outlet, expressed his concern over what he described as the consecutive meetings of the body, given that the PNCR members of the team had other responsibilities and commitments.He said that many of the members were attorneys and had obligations.The party recently accused the Government of attempting to arbitrarily abandon the work of the Task Force on Local Government Reform, thus putting local government elections further in jeopardy.At a press conference, PNCR Leader Robert Corbin had said that he had received a memorandum from the co-chairman of the task force, Clinton Collymore, suggesting that there was a deadlock in talks and that the remaining tasks were being transferred to Cabinet.Collymore wrote the memorandum to President Bharrat Jagdeo and copied it to Corbin. However, the PNCR representatives on the task force, including co-chairman Vincent Alexander,Cristopher Toselli Chile Jersey, are disputing Collymore’s assertion.“Work was ongoing, there was no deadlock,Wholesale Jerseys Online,” Alexander claimed.President Bharrat Jagdeo subsequently ordered the recommencement of the task force meetings.On August 25 last, Williams,Cheap Jerseys From China, also a member of the task force representing the PNCR, wrote Collymore, “to register a serious protest against the dilatory practices of the Government side of the Task Force,Cheap NFL Jerseys Wholesale, which have crippled its work.”According to the PNCR,Cheap China Jerseys, the only piece of legislation that was completely discussed and generally agreed upon was the proposed legislation on the new electoral system. The task force is yet to complete its discussion on three areas, namely the establishment of a Local Government Commission, objective criteria for fiscal transfers, and the necessary continuous education on the new local government system.“It should be noted that it was also a decision of the task force, a position endorsed by all stakeholders, including the donor community, that all the reforms to the local government system must be taken as a package.“Consequently, nothing is agreed until the entire raft of legislation is considered and consensus (is) reached,” according to Corbin.