INTRODUCTION
Reform is gradually transforming local government to local governance and ultimately to developmental local governance.
RESEARCH FOCUS AND OBJECTIVE
The objective of the research was to determine how, and to what extent, have the constitutional and legislative enactments facilitated local government change.
RESEARCH METHODS
The research deployed empirical and desk analyses of legal and constitutional provisions concerning Caribbean local governments.
FINDINGS
CONCLUSION
Legislative changes create a progressive institutional framework for local government in the Caribbean. Regrettably constitutional changes are incremental. Constitutional reform in the Caribbean is not a revolutionary act...It is a process of better realizing the substantive values already present in the legal order (p. 55).
RELEVANCE
Caribbean policy officials, researchers and university educators and students as well as industry leaders, have been provided with contemporary analysis of an important level of the political systems.