{"id":5283,"date":"2023-06-05T20:51:19","date_gmt":"2023-06-05T08:51:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/?p=5283"},"modified":"2023-06-05T20:51:19","modified_gmt":"2023-06-05T08:51:19","slug":"government-to-set-standard-for-local-governance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/?p=5283","title":{"rendered":"Government to set standard for local governance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Finance Minister Professor Biman Prasad has labeled some town councils as being lazy and relying full-time on the government for funding.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Prasad made the comment in one of his budget consultations in the Western Division.<\/p>\n<p>He says they aim to set a standard for local governance.<\/p>\n<p>The Finance Minister stresses that they have announced that town and city councils will have their elections.<\/p>\n<p>He says they will run their own administrations, and they will collect their rates and other fees and charges that they ought to collect to provide an efficient service to ratepayers.<\/p>\n<p>Source Fijivillage.com<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Finance Minister Professor Biman Prasad has labeled some town councils as being lazy and relying full-time on the government for funding. &nbsp; Prasad made the comment in one of his budget consultations in the Western Division. He says they aim to set a standard for local governance. The Finance Minister stresses that they have announced [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":5284,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[175],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5283","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-fiji-news"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5283","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5283"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5283\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5285,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5283\/revisions\/5285"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/5284"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5283"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5283"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5283"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}