Acting Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the Guyana Power and Light (GPL), Colin Welch arrived at the company in 2012 without any experience at a utility.
This was revealed in a letter in today’s edition of Stabroek News by former Prime Minister Sam Hinds who defended actions he took during that period and called for a recognition of the progress that GPL had made.
Welch became a figure of controversy after the now severed GPL CEO Bharat Dindyal clashed earlier this month with him openly at a GPL facility. That confrontation was one of the factors which eventually led to Minister of Public Infrastructure David Patterson sacking Dindyal. Days later, GPL announced that