Nothing as horrific on the very night of July 12, 1977, the grid of the Guyana Electricity Corporation lost its power, plunging the Guyanese coastland into darkness.

This happen again over a dozen times between 1986 and 1988 under DESSIE HOYTE, the purveyor of the worst rigged elections in Guyana.


Even after Mr. Desmond Hoyte took over the presidency on Forbes Burnham's death in 1985 - eight years after the 1977 outage, we didn't seem to get it. In the height of the blackouts and scheduled load shedding, a team of the Hoyte administration led by then Deputy Prime Minister Robert Corbin opted to buy a touted 10-megawatt power barge from Miami at a cost of some US$3 million, instead of a generating set that the Government of Italy was offering for US$2.8 million.

After months of failing to churn out more than 4 megawatts of power at any one time, the power barge blew up! 

This is progress for you under the HOYTE regime.

FAILED and this is what Granja can offer you if god forbids and he gets the plurality.

FAILED.