“In the past you as member of the District Council (DR) or Regional Council (RR) could just sit at home and wait for your salary but now you are expected to contact the Administrator’s Service and to be busy in your region or district,” District Commissioner Jerry Miranda told the people from Paramaribo who have been elected as members of the local RRs and DRs and who had convened in Congreshal to be sworn in. DC Miranda pointed out that the hearings and the beautiful figures that are presented to the minister in a district plan must become a thing of the past. “The plan is handed in and in the end there is a lack of funds to get things done…[+]