01544pab a2200181 454500008004000000100002300040245007000063260000900133300001400142362000800156520099400164650003201158650003101190650003701221650003601258650002601294773004201320180718b2007   xxu||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d  aSchoburgh, Eris D.  aLocal government reform in Jamaica and Trinidad: a policy dilemma  c2007  ap.159-74.  aMay  aIssues of local governance have dominated Caribbean policy agenda for the past two decades, prompting considerable thought and action on local government reform by scholars, local government practitioners and policy makers, alike. No reforms have been as ubiquitous as those of local government. Permitted by an international reformist agenda, local government reform policy is linked positively to efforts to redress incapacities of public management and administration. This article examines conceptual and empirical issues relating to implementation of local government reform in two Caribbean countries, Jamaica and Trinidad. It analyses how the vision for local governance is articulated through specific reform taxonomies and argues that, although local government reform is normatively a policy aimed at fundamental changes in intergovernmental relations, in Jamaica and Trinidad reform has led merely to adjustments in the internal administration of local government. - Reproduced.  aLocal government - Trinidad  aLocal government - Jamaica  aAdministrative reform - Trinidad  aAdministrative reform - Jamaica  aAdministrative reform  aPublic Administration and Development