LOCAL Government Minister, Ganga Persaud has said there has been some difficulty in supplying electricity to the Mabaruma Sub-region in Region One (Barima Waini), and the sub-region is currently without electricity.

The electricity crisis has, however, been rectified in Moruca, the minister said while addressing a press conference yesterday.
He said that although a new generator was provided for the sub-region, several challenges are still facing the area in regard to the provision of electricity.
“We were able to procure a new generator for that sub region. The intention was to extend electricity supply in areas of close proximity to Mabaruma,” Persaud said. “The new generator is already in the region, but somewhere along the line, the regional administration must have overlooked the cost to accommodate such a generator in providing electricity.”
Minister Persaud said transformers within the sub- region do not have the capacity to withstand the pressure of the new generator. As such, several steps have been taken to bring them up to the capacity of the new generator, but this has not happened because of several reasons.
“We tried to rectify this (inability to handle the full generation capacity of the new generator), but there are several obstacles that are hindering this,” the minister pointed out.