GPL ends bill payment service after ‘misappropriation’

The Guyana Power & Light Com-pany (GPL) has terminated its agreement with bill payment service, Bill Direct Holdings Inc., following concerns about misappropriation of funds.

Stabroek News understands that sums of money that would have been paid to the billing company by GPL customers were not paid over to the power company.

Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Bharrat Dindyal confirmed to this newspaper yesterday that there were some discrepancies in the financial operations of the billing company and said that the