-but will work to make GPL, GWI more efficient
The PNCR is seeking to assure citizens that any government led by the party will continue to maintain water and electricity subsidies and has no intention of scrapping them as may have been suggested otherwise.
In a release yesterday, the People’s National Congress Reform (PNCR) stated that it has noticed the efforts of “PPP-aligned entities” to deliberately misrepresent what Leader of the Opposition Aubrey Norton said at his last press conference on Friday, July19, regarding the need to maintain subsidies for utilities.
It asserted that Norton’s entire response to the question posed by the news media outlet, Demerara Waves, on whether a PNCR-led government would scrap subsidies “is crystal clear.” It pointed out that he had in fact stated that while a PNCR-led government will work over the long term to make GPL and GWI efficient and less of a burden on the national treasury, “his government will maintain subsidies in line with its long-stated position that electricity and water must be made free or affordable to low-income households and vulnerable groups.”