MORE than 40 families of the Pomeroon River district, residing on the right bank below Charity, are aware that the previous government of the PNC had discriminated against them in the supply of electricity.
In 1982, the government caused the Guyana Electricity Company to lay a one-mile cable and transmission poles to facilitate the state of the existing Regional Chairman, whose property was located at Dredge Creek on the Upper Pomeroon. The government also permitted the laying of three miles of lower lines and poles to facilitate one of their supporters at Cozier Canal embankment, where a fake school was established. The area is north east of Somerset and Berks.
The fake school failed. Some of the materials were used to build a school at Karawab and then the miles of cables and poles were removed. During the same period the 40 families were advised to prepare the pathway and purchase transmission poles, this they did as a community project. The lines to supply electricity were never laid and the dozens of 40-foot poles were left to decay.