Tell this to Stormborn and the acolytes living abroad.  

A rate raise for Linden is perfectly in order.  The opposition, particularly the AFC are just involved in political pandering.  They seems more aggressive than the PNC and they have no constituency in Linden.  The PNC is more practical as they understand the principle involved.

They (PNC) did agree to the phase-in of normal rates. it's the AFC who led the people down a misguided and unreasonable path.  Trotman seems to have taken a more measured and mature stance.

The PPP can lower the rates for the Berbicians to match.

I wonder why the PPP did not raise the rates just before the elections?

Then what about GT, Ebo, etc.  Do they lower the entire national rate and bankrupt the nation?

Why don't you pose the question to the GoG and BOSAI why they did not increase the rate before Nov 27th.  There is never an opportune time for and increases in anything.

The AFC is just being troublesome and opportunists, they know a rate equalization is justified.  They will pay a high price for this, people are watching and assessing.  Don't expect the PNC constituency to come over to you, you are just their poodle.  If they (PNC) even win on your backs, all they will do is throw them a few dry bones and watch you fight over it while they gorge on prime stake.  You will be kicked to the corner the day you don't tow the line.

You guys are the biggest bunch of jokers in recent memory.

Lindeners should pay electricty rate at the same price the rest of the country pays.NO more phasing in of rates period. The PPP/GOG have spoilt this Region for too long.  This is Regional discrimination. They should be inventive in finding ways to conserve this energy if they can't afford to pay the price. I hope that the Opposition and the AFC people going into the sugar belt tell the people that they plan to bring in a motion to subsidize the electricity rates of the rest of the country by 90% (making it equal to the price paid by Lindeners) and at the same time tell the people how they plan to find the money to pay for such subsidy.

The government is in a corrupt arrangement with Bosai - paying THEM the subsidy [very slick to call it a "tariff"] way above the actual cost of generating power to Linden customers.

Sometimes we [deliberately] miss the forest for the trees . . .

I suppose GINA and the PPP can set up a panel to normalize the price of bigan and bora in Berbice vs Georgetown. Is not the economics metric the same?

It is a good thing this lie cannot go far because everyone is aware of the GPL pricing strategy to pass on costs due to  incompetence, mismanagement and poor equipment to customer.

Those that are unaware they pay close to hald of their bill as a subsidy to GPL incompetence  this will in short order be aware of that fact. The  difference of cost between  BOSAI and GPL in producing electricity dramatic enough and will come to the fore.

Are there electric companies in your area soliciting your business on grounds they do it better? Well, there are many a cross the US doing the same and id you care to look most of them get their supply from the same source and it is only their management style that lowers cost.

And who is asking that each of them normalize their price to suit a government threshold?. That only have traction in a reality where racism is the overriding intrusion on reason.

Get it into your noggins BOSAI is not GPL BOSAI is a well managed company in an area with low theft rates. GPL customers accrue penalties to the tune of 40% of their bill because they subsidize GPL mismanagement.

Lindeners can also reduce their usage by a third via education since they apparently ( if the PPP is to be believed) use three times than normal. A campaign of using efficient appliances and lighting as well as good habit of turning off lights in areas not occupied can accomplish those ends.

This naked  racist assault on a community is obscene.

Yea yea, freeness is the katahar tree that you will never miss in any forest.

The GoG should make it tax illegal to supply electricity below the standard set rate in the nation.  Lindeners should pay the same rate at Berbicians, Buxtonians and Annandale.

Berbicians should pay to cross the bridge what people in demerara pay to cross the bridge there.

Spoken like a true Communist!

You fellow travelling bitter enders never really shed your skin, eh?

Are the electricity power plants owned by the US-of-A government?

No. They are [mostly] natural monopolies regulated by LOCAL governments. 

Is the Bosai Power Plant owned by the Guyana Government?

Hence, one needs to be circumspect on the availability and cost of electricity in Guyana.

Is your dementia acting up again?

Is BOSai owned by the GY govt.  Because apparently it is they and not GPL who supply Linden with electricity.

Hence if BOSAI generates electricty at a cheaper price than GPL it is then unfair to ask Lindeners to pay the same as other Guyanese.

The question then becomes why is GPL so inefficient, and extoring impoverished Guyanese to cover this fact?

Is electricity provided by GPL or an independent source?

It is provided by two Linden based companies.

This will ultimately make the PPP look quite silly.

If Linden is receiving a subsidy you will have to tell us why the PPP is paying BOSAI so much that they can make a profit when their mission in Guyana is to mine and process bauxite, not to generate electricity.

Electricity at McKenzie and surrounding areas is provided for ages by local entities.

Stop talking out of your rear end.  Understand freeness comes at a price.  According to your philosophy, let BOSAI decide in the interest of BOSAI.  So, If they decide to make power-gen it's own profit center, they decide what to charge to maximize their profits.  What if they see fit to increase tariffs above the national average, let Lindeners deal with it...right!!

Listen guy, the GoG exercise domain over Guyana regardless what you PNCites believe and they will set national policy, not the PNC, AFC, lose cannons or special interests.

You slaughter Indians to bring the PPP to their knees, failed, now you orchestrate the slaughter of Afros to inject race and seek international involvement.

Check this out. Why should Lindeners be made to pay for GPL wastes?

Check this out: "GPL rents US$900,000 generator for US$720,000 annually"
April 19, 2012 | By KNews |

The Guyana Power and Light Inc. (GPL) last year paid a hefty US$8.6M to
rent 12 Caterpillar generating sets for a period of one year. It could have spent
just US$2.2M more to buy them all.

Kaieteur News understands that on average, GPL was paying MACORP around
US$60,000 monthly to rent the sets.Each of the generating sets is actually
rented for a base rental of US$43,000 every month, whether they are used or not. If they are used, that base rental only caters for 200 hours of work.

Anything over the 200 hours automatically bumps up the rental to US$60,000, monthly. GPL sources confirmed that GPL worked the generators to the maximum; therefore what it has been paying is the full US$60,000 rental, per month.This means that rental cost for the 12 generators amounted to some US$720,000 for each month
last year.

All this minutia is throwing dust.  The core issue, does the rest of Guyana need to subsidize linden into consuming 4X the national average of electricity.  I say NO.

"GPL rents US$900,000 generator for US$720,000 annually"

That's a lot of dust there Baseman.

 How is it that Bosai can show a profit while GPL shows a loss? Why should Lindeners pay for GPL's ineffeciency?

ahmmm sorry. . ., this [fake] "core issue" is a papier-mâché straw man that you, Kwame and the other antimen @ OP created under the tutelage of Misir & Co.

As you "run wild" on GNI with your "sledgehammer" demolishing your latest fabrication, keep an eye out for "minutia" bai . . . it doesn't sleep, bites viciously, and just might involve jail

 What is fair is to let the marked decide the price and not impose some arbitrary price simply to bring it up  to parity with a poorly managed entity elsewhere.

The government has no dominion to do as they please. They rule by consent of the people. It is a give and take world and the PPP are accustomed with excesses since they govern using the Marcos/Suharto model where the state is their cash cow to enrich themselves, kith and kin.

The PNC did not slaughter Indians under their rule. That is hyperventilating to facilitate a lie. They were harsh and cruel, but as one diplomat noted it was a essentially a bloodless dictatorship when compared to the prevailing paradigm of dictators of the era. No we do not want them or their kind of rule again but that does not mean we will accept the PPP kind of corruption either.

Foolish statement, no thought.  Why don't you go tell Obama let the market decide on medical coverage in the USA?  The market is good with some things, not everything.  Gov't exercise some control over strategic and very essentials.  This is more-so in a small nation where there is hardly space for two competitors.

Obama does not control utility prices,  the local districts do. You are negating your own argument by making the wrong analogy. Let the local market place decide.

Government do control specific essential services bur we have someone no less than Ramotar insisting he cannot ask the operators of the Berbice river bridge to lower their price since they are a for profit business who must recover their money.

How much they put in vs how much the Guyanese people invested never came into the equation. The Guyanese people invested more than those PPP cronies ever did. Not it is collateralize on their backs as well.

You fool, where did I say Obama and utility prices.  Guyana is a different circumstance, it has less people than any state so it needs to be centrally controlled.  Swiss, a small rich nation with 7.5 mil people have a combo of Regional with Central oversight for utility rates.  Guyana, with a mere 750k needs central oversight.  Learn to think and not just blabber!

Obama had no place in the analogy. We are speaking of utility price setting where multiple providers ( many are simply resellers who accrue savings by lean management of resources) and price differential between regions. Obama does not demand there be parity.

Guyana's problem is central oversight. While not knowing how the rates are determined in by the Swiss, I am sure the reasons are not comparable to ours. They are a federalist society so the idea of centralizing a utility service means it is a special case.

As I said, learn to think.  The US sees it fit to help manage healthcare costs as it falls back on central and state Govts via Medicaid.  My position stand, learn to think before you blabber.  Utility are State due to critical mass.

You talk talk talk, but very little thinking, just talk your air head off.

 I do not need a bigot selling a dubious story tell me how to think.  I also do not need spurious analogies to harmonize a flagging argument either. We have two companies with disparate management system, stymie and delivery systems producing the same produce.

One does it better than the other. The idea that individuals buying from the the better managed at cheaper rate are forced to normalized to the poorly managed entity is pig pigheadedness. You may call that thinking but you left your thinking cap in the closet and left your racist head is exposed to the wind.

You are a lost cause, learn to think.  You may have overdosed.

Its time for the residents of Linden conserve on their electricity consumption, its time also for the burden of subsidized electricity for Linden be taken off the backs on the taxpayers.Its time for the joint opposition stop  feeding the residents of region 10 with false propaganda to achieve their cheap political gains.

Really, do you understand their costs allocation.  Their rate has nothing to do with it.  Lindeners should pay the national rate, end of story.  It's bull crap argument.

So if BOSAi generates electricity cheaply and so Lindeners get it cheaply, are you suggesting that they pay more because GPL is expensive and inefficient.

Is your love for the PPP so great that you wish to help them avoid the fact that GPL is a disaster.

Let us get to the bottom of comments made by Chris Ram and others who assert that BOSAI profitable generates power.  Is this so because they are more efficient than GPL?  Or is this so because the govt over pays them way above their costs of production?

Apparently blaming poor black people is more your style.  Not surprising given that 5 years ago you called AfroGuyanese subhuman, and even connected us to your allegation of cannibalism in certain african nations....none of which are located in West Africa by the way...so have absolutely no relevance to us.

A Trini Indian woman told me today about how racist Guyanese Indians are and hoiw shocked she is by their bigotry.  I suspect she met you on one of those days when you were ranting about how AfroGuyanese are criminals, dirty and illiterate....yes these become other assertions by you five years ago.

BTW which Indians have been slaughtered by Lindeners.  I know the PPP killed FOUR black people.

And btw the PPP does NOT exercise domain over Guyana. They serve at the pleasure of the population, 51% of whom voted AGAINST them in 2011.  This is why the PPP no longer controls parliament.

All this nonsense arguments to shore up a community that should be paying its fair share.