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A meeting was convened today among key stakeholders and Guyana Power and Light (GPL) and the proposition of six hours of blackout daily has been proposed as the state’s power generation woes continue, persons close to the meeting disclosed to our publication.
The Georgetown Chamber of Commerce and Industry (GCCI) today, in a statement, expressed its “profound disappointment with the continued state of power outages in Guyana.” The Chamber said, “This continued spate of power disruptions is having an acute impact on the productivity of enterprises.”
Further, the entity stated that it “noted that this is cascading into general underperformance of enterprises. This continued loss of productive time, disruption to production, and overall hindrance to the smooth functioning of business will impede both growth and investment prospects.”
Former Minister of Infrastructure (now Ministry of Public Works) David Patterson recently told this publication, “Rather than us having the fairy lights issue we are having now the sad reality for folks in the country is that we would be experiencing blackouts, ‘distribution frequency management’, until January 2024”.
This, he noted, is because of the containerized sets that the government is now purchasing, what he called ‘used sets’ from Honduras, adding that “imagine the fastest-growing economy in the world, Little Dubai is buying second, and third-hand sets from Honduras”.
