Dear Editor,
I write this with a heavy heart. I am very angry. Guyana Power and Light Inc is overdoing it. I have been paying just about $9,000 dollars light bill at the property I stay since the year has begun. This month my bill has doubled. My neighbour who works for $27,000 a month has been paying around $6,000 a month, this month his bill has jumped to $16000. Now tell me, when this man finishes paying more than half his salary to GPL and still has telephone bill to pay, has to buy food, has to pay bus fare, how can it work? He has no other support. Now added to this, we have been getting a lot of blackouts recently, almost every day sometimes for hours. What kind of fairness is that? They say they are trying to save fuel, but enough is enough. You can’t be giving people blackout almost every day. They owe it to the Guyanese public to provide a proper service be-cause people are paying. How is it that in one month, people’s light bills have doubled having been paying around the same amount for months? I have not done anything different in turns of burning neither has my neighbour. I think Guyanese need to come out and do something against the injustices of GPL. Why doesn’t the Government explore Burnham’s idea to have the Kaieteur Falls provide the country’s energy? Food prices, bills everything just keep rising. And they wonder why we have such a crime rate. People are losing faith man. I am losing faith. It is time we do something.
Yours faithfully,
A. McPherson