Latest update April 4th, 2025 6:13 AM
Electricity and water finally installed to injured prison officer’s home
Electricity and water being installed at Roxanne Winfield’s house.
Under immense pressure from constant lobbying from several sections of society including the media, the two government-owned utility companies finally relented and provide electricity and potable water to the home of crippled Prison Officer, Roxanne Winfield.
Yesterday workers from the Guyana Power and Light Inc. and the Guyana Water Inc. installed the necessary facilities to the Nabaclis, East Coast Demerara home. This will now enable Winfield to occupy the home that was officially handed over to her since last year December.
The move by the utility companies comes in the wake of an article carried in this newspaper two Sundays ago; highlighting the hurdles Winfield and her immediate family were enduring to obtain electricity and potable water.
Kaieteur News understands that Opposition Leader David Granger and APNU Parliamentarian Ernest Elliot saw the article and made enquiries to facilitate the speedy installation of an electricity meter and water fittings.
According to Winfield’s son, Jamal Collins, he had approached the power company two months ago and was told that there was an outstanding balance listed for the address on which his mother’s house is built.
“They tell me that there is an outstanding balance of $51,000 and they have to investigate. My mother never lived at that address. My grandfather was living there and when he died seven years ago, they broke down the house and built my mother’s house,” Collins related. He stated that when he contacted the Guyana Water Incorporated to secure potable water to the house, and again he encountered barriers.
“They (GWI) told me the name of another person who they said was registered to the place and that the water bill was never paid. I really don’t know what is happening,” Collins said.
Kaieteur News Editor in chief, Adam Harris, also got involved and contacted the head of the Public Utilities Commission, Justice Prem Persaud, who subsequently wrote the utility companies requesting that they waive all the outstanding charges on humanitarian grounds.
A family member told Kaieteur News last night that Winfield could occupy her new home by this weekend.
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