Dear Editor,
Prime Minister Hinds responded to my question in the National Assembly about the high electricity rates, but nowhere in that response did I see a glimmer of hope as to when the rate paid by our poor people and our struggling commercial and manufacturing sectors will be reduced to a level which they can afford. It is currently 30 US cents per kilowatt hour (commercial rate) when everywhere else with populations close to ours it is about one third less. In small islands in the Caribbean or elsewhere, which this government likes to quote as examples of high costs for electricity, it happens mostly because the employees get huge salaries and the law of diminishing returns dictates that the rate will be high.
