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Indeed the pressure is mounting

Jun 12, 2013 Letters

Dear Editor,
I opened the Stabroek News for June 10,2013 and on page 3 the article is entitled “No impact seen yet from budget cuts” by David Granger.
“Pressure mounts” – Ramjattan
Just the day before in the most of the daily papers “GPL calls for 26.7 % tariff increase.
Since we burn fuel to generate power in Guyana and we do not produce our own, we are left at the mercy of the world market prices, which I must say fluctuates mostly upwards, so subsidy to GPL is required to prevent this increased charges from being passed on to the consumers.
This of course led to the protests in Linden resulting in shooting deaths and a subsequent Commission of Enquiry which cost the government some $120M plus compensation in addition to the buildings that have to be rebuilt together with the immeasurable loss of business in that community that resulted due to the blockage of the roadways for days.
I was very interested in seeing what will happen between the combined opposition and the government with this one seat that the opposition have, since it was the first time in history in Guyana this had happened.
Initially, it was good to see the certain Ministries got their budgeted amounts after proper explanations for the respective ministers.
GPL of course did not get its “subsidy” and here we are now facing a 26.7 % increase. Is it to understand from all of this that the rest of Guyana is fully capable economically to foot this exorbitant increase, or do we need to do what Linden did, block roads and protest too, or is the opposition only concerned with the residence in the “depressed community” of Linden ?
Since in my opinion the joint opposition has taken us (GPL Consumers) down this road to this troubling situation, i am very interested to know what the opposition plan is, since i, like so many others, can barely afford to pay charges at the current rates much less the increased amount or like many others, i may be forced to steal electricity too.
I fully agree with mr Ramjattan’s statement “pressure mounts”, however it is being mounted on the people, no one else.
Please clarify
Doodnauth Ramnarine

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