Prime Minister Sam Hinds says that come July 1, the people of Linden will face higher tariffs for electricity and that residents of the mining town “will have to manage the best way that they can manage.”
Hinds, who has responsibility for the power sector, said that this year’s budget made a provision of $1.865 billion as a subsidy to the people of Linden’s consumption of electricity and this was reduced from almost $3 billion last year. “We aim to bring Linden fully into the system,”