At a consultation in Region Ten with community leaders and key stakeholders, Prime Minister Samuel Hinds and Head of the Privatization Unit Winston Brassington called for suggestions to curtail the high costs being incurred in subsidizing electricity in Linden.
According to the prime minister, already for the current year the region has utilized $734M of its budget allocation of $2,043M. This, he said, would see the region exhausting the entire budget allocation by the end of October 2008.
In an attempt to stretch the remainder of the budget allocation to the end of the calendar year the government was seeking proposals from community leaders and stakeholders.