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Why is the Opposition silent on GPL performance?

Aug 19, 2016 Letters

Dear Editor,
There has been silence from the Board of Directors and Management of the Guyana Power and Light Inc. (GPL) on what is happening at the state-owned entity. With the Government, as shareholder, silent on the issues concerning this very critical entity, one can only hope that the current Leader of the Opposition, Bharrat Jagdeo, is paying attention.
Jagdeo, as former President, oversaw a number of initiatives which saw new power plants and even an attempt to bring hydro electric power via the Amaila Falls project. Since being appointed months ago, Badal and his board have not seen it fit to host a press conference. Neither has the interim management. This is despite the many burning questions about power outages, metering program, the breakage of the submarine cable linking Georgetown and Vreed-en-Hoop power plants and even the reported delays in issuing contracts.
GPL every year has been handling billions of dollars in assets and cash for the state to manage power production.We, as contractors, are now faced with deafening silence on a number of contracts including supply of meters and even the IDB-EU US$18M transmission lines project for which tenders were opened since February.
Mr. Editor, while there are questions under the previous administration about a number of things, to the credit of Winston Brassington, the former Chairman, and Bharat Dindyal, the former head, they were easily accessible. It appears now that GPL is one big secret and even the subject minister seems missing in action.
We are no longer in the mood to tolerate the same old same old behavior.
It is time that the current Leader of Opposition start raising questions about the management of GPL. Issues of procurement and shortages of meters that are holding back the processing of backlogs along with who will be held responsible for the breakages of the submarine cable are some of the top questions for the Opposition.
D. Martin

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