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President Irfaan Ali on Friday vowed that if Guyanese continue to be hit by electricity outages next year, a number of Guyana Power & Light (GPL) managers would be fired. “I’ve made it very clear to the management of GPL that heads will roll…that if we don’t see with these investments marked improvement by the end of the first quarter…then ...

Former electricity minister, David Patterson on Friday assailed the People’s Progressive Party Civic (PPPC) administration for wasting US$426 million on renting two electricity supply ships over the next two years instead of buying new generators for the state-owned Guyana Power and Light (GPL), Inc. He reminded that A Partnership for National Unity+Alliance For Change (APNU+AFC) administration had purchased 46 megawatts ...

The Guyana government is finalising a deal with a Turkish company to rent a 36 megawatt barge, in an effort to satisfy peak electricity demand at a time when several generators are giving trouble, Vice President Bharrat Jagdeo said Thursday. Peak electricity demand in the Demerara-Berbice Interconnected System (DBIS) is just over 170 megawatts but existing generators are pushing just ...