The government has signalled to members of a Campbelltown, Region Eight, co-operative farming society that they will soon have access to both water and electricity.
Since establishing a co-op farming society, 13 Campbelltown farmers have been missing two key resources, the Department of Public Information (DPI) reported yesterday.
According to the report, one of the farmers, Annie Williams, approached government representatives during the ongoing ‘Government Comes to You’ outreach and explain-ed their unfortunate situation to them.
Williams revealed that the farmers are dependent on the rain and a creek, located miles away from the community, for their daily supply of water. After hearing her plight, Trevor Poole, the Regional Technician of Mahdia for the Guyana Incorporated (GWI), informed Williams that residents will have access to potable water by as early as September. “We already did some work, an estimation of what kind of material is needed to carry the line to the area so residents in the area can have access to potable water…,” he was quoted as saying.
After receiving that report, Williams went to the booth of Ministry of Public Infrastructure at the outreach and also highlighted that they were gravely in need of electricity. She explained that their source of electricity comes from solar panels, which are proving to be defective considering the fact that the power supply hasn’t been lasting past 8 pm. She noted that they would normally shell peas during the night.
The Minister within the Ministry of Public Infra-structure Jaipaul Sharma gave her a favourable response as he indicated that a team would be deployed to assess the solar-powered systems upon completion of the outreach. “There is a solar system supplying them with power, and that is free of cost, the problem is that they (farmers) say the system is operating at half its capacity. So, we have to check to see, of course. The first thing—what it will cost to run a line into the area, the second thing is what it will cost to restore the storage capacity of the solar system, and of course solar energy is free to them. So, they (farmers) have to look at the feasibility on their end and we will look at it on our end as well,” DPI quoted Sharma as saying.
