Latest update April 11th, 2025 5:28 AM
GPL clips power to UG’s recently re-commissioned IT Centre
Less than two weeks after the University of Guyana’s Centre for Information
The GPL disconnection vehicle in the University’s compound yesterday.
Technology (CIT) was commissioned by President Donald Ramotar, the Guyana Power and Light (GPL) yesterday disconnected the power to the building.
Calls to UG Vice Chancellor, Professor Jacob Opadeyi, Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of GPL, Bharat Dindyal, along with other officials, went unanswered. The cash-strapped University has been straining to pay its staff, taxes and utility bills for several years.
As part of a three-year $60M MoU signed with the University of Guyana on April 30 last, the Guyana Telephone & Telegraph Company (GT&T) financed the refurbishment and replacement of hardware and software in the Computer Lab at the University of Guyana. The Internet Resource Centre was re-commissioned at a cost of $20M.
Additionally, the re-commissioning ceremony marked the delivery of the 2Mbps of dedicated Internet Bandwidth to the Centre for Information Technology (CIT) at an overall cost of $1.2 million monthly.
The IT centre was re-commissioned on September 18.
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