NO!

You still doan get it eh Uncle Pervy?

President Donald Ramotar on Friday ordered a delay in the proposed 26.7 percent tariff hike the power company is planning to implement.

The instruction was given after the Head of State met with the Board and management of the power company for talks earlier in the day amidst concerns about the implications of the subsidy that was denied by way of majority vote by the political opposition.

President Ramotar who made the announcement at the launch of GuyExpo 2013 in the lobby of the Guyana International Conference Centre (GICC) said restoration of the government’s subsidy to the power company must be expeditious.

“We are ready to take it back to parliament tomorrow once we are assured that we will have the support to get it passed so that we can minimise any increase of rates that GPL will be forced to implement,” he was quoted by the state-run Government Information Agency (GINA) as saying.

The opposition Alliance For Change (AFC) and A Partnership for National Unity (APNU), which together used their majority to cut the subsidy to GPL, are demanding better accountability of previous subsidies and effective management of the power company to reduce technical and commercial losses. They want the entire board, its Chairman as well as Chief Executive Officer replaced.

Government has so far not given into any of those demands.

The power company had decried the decision to cut the subsidy, pointing to several projects in the making that have either been incomplete or have not yet commenced as a result.

Among them is the 26-megawatt plant at Vreed-en-Hoop which requires foundation works, equipment lodged in Finland and sub-stations under the Chinese infrastructure development projects.

The subvention also would have advanced the process of frequency conversion which was successfully undertaken at the Wartsila Kingston plant and was planned for about eight other locations.

Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the power company Bharrat Dindyal who had only Thursday met with the President in the company of the Private Sector Commission (PSC) and the Federation of Independent Trade Unions of Guyana (FITUG), had pointed to the number of locations across the country where the construction of sub-stations are evident, but has reached a standstill.

He had argued that the 26.7 percent tariff hike which he is aware would bring significant impact on consumers is the only alternative to garner the funds needed to complete them and improve efficiency and service quality, and address technical and commercial losses.

The political opposition parties are opposed to the increase and are doubting that the denial of the subvention is the rationale for GPL’s decision.

GPL has submitted its Final Return Certificate (FRC) to the Public Utilities Commission (PUC).

The company is counting on the Amaila Falls Hydropower Project (AFHP) to reduce the costs of generation by half and lessen the impact of fuel costs on increasing tariffs. Experts had concluded that hydropower has potential to reduce the electricity bills by 25 to 40 percent, President Ramotar had recently noted.

At Friday's launch he assured that once on stream, hydropower would totally eliminate the need for annual subventions to the power company and satisfy the need for cheap and reliable energy to promote efficient production in the processing and manufacturing industries.

the ppp is playing politics with the guyanese people well enough is enough the oppsition have to stick to their guns this government have to start respecting the tax payers money GPL AND GUYUSCO BOARD HAVE TO BE SEND HOME 

Whats good for the goose is also good for the gander, the joint opposition approved subsidies for Linden while denying complete subsidies for citizens who live on the coast.....Is Linden a state within a state?

Linden is three card monty. It is a good company doing a fine job and not permitting to bill directly but whose electricity production is marked up and resold at to citizens by, yes, that snake eyes, squeaky voiced girly man.

51 percent of the People say the PPP should not be in power. That is a lot of people

The P.P.P/C was a victim of their own success, at the 2011 polls, complacency played a huge role in the outcome.

if that is the lie you or they need to tell themselves then so be it. We know the truth. You had the entire state machinery at your service, bean trading with options for ATV and turbo chain saws to the gullible Amerinds, Soca and reggae bacchanal at the nations premier venue with international stars to gull the young and you still got whupped. Guess what, the return fight but will be a far more gruesome ass whipping. Amerinds are wise to the lies and the young people are not drinking your cool aide. As for black people, they are tired of being your scapegoat. And look out for defections from your base, old head indos like skeldon man. Some are ashamed in their beds from your debasement of the culture. You have become the template for the corrupt and that does not sit well.

The joint opposition is a bluff, if they felt the present administration was corrupt and cannot manage the country, they would have already pass a vote of no confidence already, they know to their gut the Guyanese populace are willing to working along with the present govt, the one seat "majority" the joint opposition boosts of was as a direct result of complacency by many PPP/C supporters, the joint opposition are cognizant of the fact that, if they only move a no confidence vote, the PPP/C will be entrusted with a majority by the Guyanese populace.

The PPP/C is willing to work along with the joint opposition by putting the country first? Is the joint opposition willing to do same?

You still peddling trash?

A senior Alliance for Change(AFC) Berbice official who played an integral part during the party's 2011 election campaign says that the AFC is currently working in the interest of the People's National Congress(PNC) and its A Partnership for National Unity(APNU) and this has caused it to loose the support garnered in Region Six. 

AFC Region 6 Councilor Haseef Yusuf fell out with the party's leadership after he exposed internal corruption and other malpractices and said that the negative effects of not passing the Anti-Money Laundering and Countering the Financing of Terrorism (Amendment) Bill 2013 are enough to  erase all the economic progress Guyana made over the past 20 years. The AFC withheld its support for the amendments and says it will continue to do so unless President Donald Ramotar reverses his decision to not assent to two bills passed in the house by the opposition. The party also joined with the PNC's APNU in their efforts to stymie the timely passing of these critical pieces of legislation. Yusuf said that the effects together with the illegal budget cuts spearheaded by his party are enough to make the country ungovernable and to once again plunge Guyana into poverty, hunger and lawlessness.

He said that the good people of Guyana, including himself and those from Berbice who voted for the AFC at the last elections will not stand idly and allow this to happen. Yusuf said from the responses of numerous AFC members and supporters, in their wildest dreams they did not envisage such irrational and spiteful attitudes from the AFC leaders or that the AFC will aid and abet the PNC in its quest to make the country ungovernable.
He charged that party leader Khemraj Ramjattan cannot "bluff" the nation by saying that the AFC is ready for a snap election when in fact it isn't ready. He said that as things currently stand if elections were to be held the AFC will not fare as well as it did in 2011.

No one here really cares about that hogwash. That's what is it, hogwash