Georgetown- A Partnership for National Unity (A.P.N.U.) in a release to the press today stated that it wishes to assert that it took the initiative to halt the unilateral imposition of increased electricity tariffs in support of Lindeners and other residents who staged protests in the town on Wednesday 18th April. APNU insisted that the situation in the Region was such that the higher tariffs proposed by the Government would cause unbearable distress to residents who cannot afford the new rates under present conditions.
APNU stated, also, that it was out of concern for residents that it insisted that certain outstanding measures be put in place in the shortest possible time. These include, among others, the establishment of micro-financing business facilities through the reactivation of the Linden Economic Network (LEN); the liberalization of radio and television broadcasting and the installation of systems to bring an end to the bauxite dust nuisance within a specific time-frame.
APNU urged the Government to ensure that the systems, whenever they are eventually implemented, placed the least of the burden on those least able to afford an increase in rates. The Government, therefore, committed to be guided by the principles of “gradualism and selectivity” in its approach to the adjustment of electricity tariffs.
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