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• Minister of Local Government and Community Development, Hon. Desmond McKenzie, is calling on local authorities to become more self-sufficient, in order to reduce their dependency on central government.
• “If we speak about the independence of local government, then we should create our own niche of revenue, and it’s time we extricate ourselves from the pockets of central government by becoming more relevant when it comes to generating our own sources of revenue,” the Minister said.
• Mr. McKenzie emphasised that the potential is there for this to become a reality, noting that “this is one area of disappointment in local government”.