The parliamentary opposition parties have come out against the proposed 26.7 per cent Guyana Power and Light tariff increase, with the AFC urging Guyanese to vigorously resist it, while the APNU called for the removal of the entire board.
In its statement issued early yesterday, the Alliance for Chance (AFC) noted that “even after spending billions every year through loans and prohibitively high prices on new generating capacity, it is vividly clear that the government has no solution in sight in the context of its statutory duty to provide electricity at an affordable cost”.
The opposition party pronounced that “after more than 20 years of PPP Government in office… the PPP has no excuses other than its gross incompetence and corruption. It has handled GPL just like it has handled the