Thousands of residents between Bel Air Gardens, Georgetown and Liliendaal, Greater Georgetown and other communities on the East Coast of Demerara yesterday suffered a 15-hour power outage.
Stabroek News gathered that the outage resulted from two utility poles falling in Liliendaal.
Despite persons complaining of the lengthy power outage on Facebook, the power company issued no statement on the cause.
British High Commissioner Greg Quinn in a Facebook post bemoaned the outage. In his post he said “Guyana Power and Light having another stunning week of not supplying power to Guyana. 15 hours without power up until yesterday and no mains power since the middle of last night” and questioned if anyone had an explanation for the power outage. Quinn in his post also questioned the laid back approach by the power company in rectifying the issue.
Photographer Amanda Richards also vented her frustration on the power outage on her social media page. Richards in the post said that she suffered more than seven hours without electricity.
Public Infrastructure Minister David Patterson in responding to her post explained that “GPL had two poles along with the high voltage main wires on the ground,” as the reason for the power outage. He said that an emergency team was on the ground and expected to complete the job shortly.
Yesterday, when Stabroek News visited the scene at Liliendaal, workers from GPL’s emergency crew were reconnecting the wires. A worker said that they had to replace two poles after pointing out that the base of one was rotten.
