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GPL disconnects illegal connections in Stabroek Market

Jan 18, 2009 News

A team from Guyana Power and Light carried out a major disconnection of illegal wires in the Stabroek Market square, yesterday morning.
According to vendors of the market, the team came just after 10:00hrs yesterday without informing them about the disconnection.
One vendor explained that “the men just came and started pulling down the wires” without saying anything. The same vendor said that “although the men have the right to disconnect the illegal wires, the market has no security lights outside”. She further told Kaieteur News that when the lights are gone, the situation would increase the heavy theft that already happens within the market.
“It’s like you’re saying to the bandits have fun; there’s no lights,” the woman explained to Kaieteur News.
Some other vendors told Kaieteur News that they did not mind paying for the lights, but no one from Guyana Power and Light even sought to consider that notion. She said that this move by the power company would now force vendors to close their businesses early, which would in turn “cut their financial income”.
The woman said that the market has been without legal lighting for the three year she has been a vendor there.
Chief Executive Officer for GPL, Bharat Dindyal, said that it was an ongoing process to “stop illegal connections”. He further told Kaieteur News that persons are stealing electricity all around Georgetown and it is GPL’s committed effort to stop this.
He added that this would be an ongoing process in Georgetown.
When asked whether he was unaware that there were no lighting facilities in the market, he said that he was not sure if the vendors were selling there legitimately.
Dindyal noted that if some vendors are there legitimately, Guyana Power and Light is bound by law to provide subscribers who request the service from the power company.

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