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Jun 04, 2010 Letters
Dear Editor,
The Guyana Power and Light’s (GPL) rotten service of poor electricity delivery is once again coming to the fore and the picture looks very bleak again for Berbicians.
This essay, however, is about GPL’s shoddy service to the entire Guyana because Georgetown is suffering very much with daily blackouts as well.
GPL, I was at my wits end with you guys during the past weekend. Berbicians experienced approximately 10 blackouts from Friday right up to Monday morning.
The language I wish to use towards GPL is not savory for these columns nor does it speak well for my character, but I am ashamed of what this power company is doing to Guyanese on a daily basis.
When will this madness of blackouts end, when?
There were several power failures in Berbice on Sunday evening! Yes, there was a thunder shower but that did not give GPL the excuse to black out the entire Berbice region for several hours last Sunday evening!
I was so angry. I had work planned to do! I had my show on the radio to listen, after a very tiring week, and the same ahead. I went to bed very angry last Sunday evening.
Of all the times of the day, the GPL blackouts come when you need electricity the most, when you have so much work to do on the computer, or in the home! I had my assignment to complete, and I know many other persons had so much to do but they had to change their schedules to fit the incompetent power company very often. They come at the most wrong of times. GPL, that is surely inexcusable.
What you are doing to the Guyanese public? You are stopping the lives of thousands on a daily basis when there is a blackout. People have to halt what they are doing to accommodate these annoying electricity withdrawals!
This is not good enough! Kingston Power Plant has come on stream — same story! Skeldon Co-Generation Factory has come on stream — same story! Every now and then, more empty promises flow like the rivers of Babylon — same bloody story! New generators have come to the various power stations — the same sad and pathetic story! When will it end, I ask on behalf of Guyanese everywhere?!
I visited the Skeldon Co-Generation Plant and saw the massive set-up there.
Surely, it is indeed a modernized state-of-the-art system for which millions were spent.
I saw three large engines and two large steam- turbines. Isn’t the service to Berbice supposed to have improved then? Oh God, I am so sick of GPL! I don’t know what more to say. I do not know how many more letters to the press it would take to embarrass these incompetent people. GPL’s service has been getting from worse to worst in the years. I can prove it!
During this same period last year (2009) there were 73 blackouts in Berbice (give or take 1 or 2 but that’s a very pretty accurate number).
Today there has been nearly 100 blackouts in Berbice — 100! There has been 20 blackout days in 31 days in May! This is sickening to say the least.
GPL cannot, and I repeat, cannot provide enough electricity to this nation. More and more are added to the power grid everyday, as I had mentioned in a previous essay. Now, we’re hearing this bull about hydro power. When would that finish?
That issue has been embroiled in controversy as it is with the contractor and his alleged inability to construct a road to the area in the jungle.
Guyana is skipping fourth and swiftly moving on to become a 5th world country! Yes, we’re going to the dogs, day by day. The power situation in Guyana is just a tip off the iceberg of problems we have in this country; ‘Champion of the Earth’, my foot – champion of darkness and champion of the country with the most blackouts per square inch.
Leon Jameson Suseran
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