All contracting firms responsible for carrying out works for Guyana Power and Light (GPL) Inc. are to be reassessed and re-evaluated to ensure their compliance with their contractual obligations, in wake of the severe injuries sustained by a man who was used by a contractor without clearance from the company.
Parsram Persaud, the company’s Manager of Metering, was unable to say exactly how many firms are under contract with GPL to carry out various works since there are several different divisions and departments which work with contractors. As head of the metering department, however, he was able to say that 28 contracting teams help to carry out the department. All of these contractors, he said, including those in fear-reaching areas, are to be screened simultaneously and the company says it hopes to complete the process in approximately three weeks.
The decision comes in the wake the hospitalisation of 29-year-old Rayon Henry, of Lot ‘N’ Bent Street, who