Ramotar renews plea for Amaila consensus

Donald Ramotar

President Donald Ramotar last night made another appeal to Leader of the Opposition David Granger on salvaging the collapsing Amaila hydropower project and wants a meeting between the two sides to thrash out the outstanding matters.

In a statement released by the Government Information Agency, Ramotar said he agrees with A Partnership for National Unity (APNU) on the importance of two issues: the belief that the Amaila Falls project is likely to condemn Guyanese to excessive indebtedness; and the belief that the Amaila Falls project will not “provide assurance that the final cost of power to the consumer will be appreciably lower than the current tariff.”

“Earlier this week, I spoke of how I was urging a national consensus in support of the Amaila Falls Hydropower project,