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The return of blackouts

Oct 01, 2014 Letters

Dear Editor,
We are just over two months away from the Christmas season and we are now greeted by blackouts for over eight to twelve hours on a daily basis. Last week I was officiating at a very big wedding at my church.
The moment I started the wedding I was greeted by a blackout. The lights went off, the microphones were dead, the place was heated and I had to stop the wedding until we put on our standby generator.
A few months ago I had guests at church from over eight different countries. In the evening service the moment our guests arrived they were greeted by a long blackout; we had to put on our generator again. It’s quite embarrassing in this day and age of modern technology that our nation is moving backwards not forwards.
It’s more humiliating when we have foreign guests at a church, the place of worship, and while officiating at a wedding that we are embarrassed by constant blackouts.
At most church services now I prefer to use generator rather than GPL because GPL has failed this nation. But it does not fail to disconnect your power if a day passes and bills are not paid. The bills are getting higher and higher for electricity that is not supplied.
They carrying away meters from old people saying the meters are tampered with and they have to pay two years backdated bills to get back their electricity. They have old meters since GEC that’s over 30 years old that were never replaced now they go all over hollering meter tampering from old mal-functioned meters.
Everyday hundreds of our tired citizens have to form long unending lines at GPL to query bills. It’s disgusting when your light bill exceeds your salary and it seems as if our politicians care less about the progress of this nation.
Do we have a vision plan to run this nation since elections are very soon? What our politicians need is to have a new modern vision to govern this nation. But it seems to me that none of our political leaders have what it takes to govern because of a lack of vision. Real leadership is about having a vision plan to run this nation.
What I see is our politicians fighting and accusing each other daily so a house divided by itself cannot stand. If they are fighting  among themselves then it means that our nation has bad examples to follow.
Our existing administration had 22 years to deal with blackouts, bad drainage and irrigation, garbage everywhere now the outbreak of chikungunya, all because our environment breeds the bad mosquitoes that carry the disease.
People throw garbage everywhere, from the rich businessman to the poor ghetto folks. I normally walk through a road that leads to the Mon Repos Primary School and see tons of garbage thrown near the road by residents.
Where are the sanitary inspectors? Where is the NDC chairman?
V.S Naipaul wrote a book called an Area of Darkness; I believe this is a prophecy for our nation since we are in blackout and darkness. With the right technology our Kaieteur Falls can give this nation and our neighboring nations, electricity. To eradicate blackouts we should turn to solar power. With less than a million people it’s possible to have solar power in every home. We will have no need for GPL.
Rev.Gideon Cecil

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