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Mabaruma experiences prolonged power outage
As protest lingers over weeks of power outage at Mabaruma and the surrounding communities, Cabinet is now seeking to provide financial resources to accelerate the procurement of the various components required to facilitate the installation and working of the new generator.
This is according to Minister of Local Government and Regional Development, Ganga Persaud, during a press briefing yesterday.
Persaud said that a newly procured 750 kva generator was recently sent into Region One to provide electricity to villages in proximity to Mabaruma. This was expected to function alongside the old generator that provides electricity to Mabaruma.
Unfortunately, those plans did not materialize because the Regional Administration may have overlooked the installation cost and the other components that are necessary to accommodate such a generator into providing feed into the network and the grid, he said.
He stressed, “It was only after the generator arrived at the location that we recognize that the present transformers would be inadequate to accommodate the output from that generator.”
Following a technical assessment conducted by an official in the Office of the Prime Minister it was realized that instead of a 750 kva generator a 1,000 kva generator was needed if the system were to operate smoothly.
However, in an attempt to source that transformer two discoveries were made- there was insufficient financial resources at the level of the Regional Administration and that size of transformer was unavailable, Persaud noted.
“What we sought to do in the interim was to continue to maintain the old generator and have that providing electricity to the community. Some two weeks ago the old generator started acting up and we sent in an electrician to assist us with servicing that generator and to see how best we can have it running while we seek to get the various components required to install the new generator.”
Attempts to repair the old generator also failed and now it has to be transported to Georgetown to be fixed. Despite the works executed on the generator it experienced further difficulties and complications.
“The Regional authorities since Tuesday have sought to engage residents by informing them of the present situation, at the same time explaining the Regions’, the Ministry’s and Government’s efforts in terms of rectifying the situation,” Persaud said.
However, residents are not taking this situation lightly. They are agitated that the authorities are taking this long to rectify the problem and are threatening to stage a protest.
The residents stressed that the excuse provided by the Region and Government is unacceptable.
Speaking on electricity difficulties experienced in the Moruca sub-district weeks ago, he said the Ministry was able to fix that problem.
“We are working to ensure that there is some permanence in the mechanism we have put in place to ensure we have a reliable supply of electricity in the Moruca sub-district in Region One,” Persaud stated.
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