PUC will rule on complaint against power company at next sitting

From left Lakeram Balkaran, Chand Balkaran, Debbie Ramash and Chandra Balkaran.

The Public Utilities Commission (PUC) is set to rule, at its next sitting, on the complaint against the Guyana Power and Light (GPL) over the electrocution of a ten-year-old boy in May. However the date of that sitting has not yet been determined.

The PUC sat yesterday at the Cara Lodge and heard from the family of Satyanand Balkaran, who was electrocuted while bathing, as well as Deputy Chief Executive Officer of GPL Aeshwar Deonarine.

A particular sticking point was the inability of the family to prove or GPL to disprove that a complaint about an