{"id":5570,"date":"2026-10-12T01:00:39","date_gmt":"2026-10-12T05:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tringlobe.news\/?p=5570"},"modified":"2026-10-12T01:00:39","modified_gmt":"2026-10-12T05:00:39","slug":"imbert-warns-expansion-to-17-corporations-could-create-staffing-and-funding-problems","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tringlobe.news\/?p=5570","title":{"rendered":"Imbert Warns Expansion To 17 Corporations Could Create Staffing And Funding Problems"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Diego Martin North\/East MP Colm Imbert has warned that expanding Trinidad\u2019s local government structure from 14 to 17 municipal corporations could create significant financial, staffing and administrative challenges.<\/p>\n<p>Imbert questioned how new corporations would secure headquarters, equipment, administrative personnel, CEOs and other resources while existing corporations are already facing financial constraints.<\/p>\n<p>He also raised concerns about daily-paid employees whose workplaces could fall under newly created municipal boundaries.<\/p>\n<p>Imbert asked how staff would be divided between existing and new corporations and whether transfers could affect seniority arrangements for workers.<\/p>\n<p>He further questioned the cost of establishing additional administrative structures at a time when, he claimed, corporations are struggling to fund development programmes, infrastructure, equipment, goods and services and garbage collection.<\/p>\n<p>Imbert said the legislation contains a proclamation clause and suggested the changes could not realistically be implemented immediately because extensive administrative and human resource arrangements would first have to be completed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Imbert questions how three additional corporations would be staffed, equipped and funded under existing constraints.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5569,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[62],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5570","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-trinidad-and-tobago"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tringlobe.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5570","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tringlobe.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tringlobe.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tringlobe.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tringlobe.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5570"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tringlobe.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5570\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tringlobe.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/5569"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tringlobe.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5570"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tringlobe.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5570"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tringlobe.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5570"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}