Higher power costs loom for Linden

From the start of next month, Lindeners will begin paying higher electricity rates, in keeping with the plan by government to gradually scale-back its subsidising of the cost in the mining town.

“On July 1, the revised electricity tariffs will kick in,” Head of the Presidential Secretariat Dr. Roger Luncheon told a post-Cabinet press brief yesterday.

Luncheon noted that this year’s budget makes a provision of