Poll: Dim view of municipal corporations ahead of local government election

As the nation prepares to vote in the local government election on February 26, forty per cent of persons polled have ranked the country’s municipal corporations as poor or very poor managers of the nation’s business at the local level, with another 40 per cent saying their performance was just average.

This is according to the latest RJRGLEANER Communications Group-commissioned Don Anderson polls.

Only seven per cent of those polled gave the parish councils a “very good” rating, while 13 per cent said they were “good”.

The polls were conducted during the period February 2 – 7.

Using a sample size of 1,010 registered voters across the 14 parishes, responders were asked a number of questions relating to their local representatives over the last seven years.

Giving the top five reasons for assigning a failing grade to the municipal corporations, 60 per cent of responders said their elected councillors were missing in action; 57 per cent cited poor road construction; 26 per cent highlighted lack of access to water while 23 per cent complained about lack of jobs and 10 per cent said there’s a lack of green spaces.