Georgetown: The People’s Progressive Party (PPP) says it is very concerned at the recent application by the Guyana Power and Light (GPL)Company to the Public Utilities Commission (PUC) for the approval of a 26.7% increase in electricity rates to consumers.
“We lay this impending increase squarely on the AFC/APNU alliance which combined to slash 5.2 billion dollars from the 2013 National Budget that was allocated by Government to GPL to prevent consumers having to face such a burden,” the party noted. “This was despite several pleas by Government, the Management of GPL, other stakeholders and the People’s Progressive Party for the AFC and APNU to refrain from cutting GPL’s subsidy but they ignored this and went ahead; fully aware of the consequences it would have on consumers.”
According to the PPP, the opposition cannot pretend to be ignorant of the challenges and what is being done to correct them by the Guyana Power and Light management as all this information has been presented to both the AFC and APNU.
“What continues to boggle the mind is that while the AFC and APNU are putting up all manner of excuses to deny consumers along the Coast the benefit of such subsidies from Government; they did not display this level of concern when they approved the subsidies Government had also set aside for Region 10 to the tune of close to 3 billion dollars,” the party noted
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