REGION Two (Pomeroon/Supenaam) Regional Democratic Councillors of both the ruling People’s Progressive Party/Civic (PPP/C) and the Opposition grouping A Partnership for National Unity (APNU) are calling on the Government to take immediate action against the Guyana Telephone & Telegraph Company (GT&T) for poor landline and Internet services offered to residents on the Essequibo Coast. 

PPP/C Councillor Brian Basil Persaud said the landline service is in poor state, and many phones are down or malfunctioning in terms of dial tone. He told other councillors that the Internet service is also not performing well, and many customers have to pay their full monthly fees for that which, many times, is malfunctioning.

Persaud said residents of the Upper Pomeroon River at St. Monica, Karawab and Kabakaburi are asking GT&T or Digicel to put up a tower in the area to give them access to phone and the Internet services, but there has been no response to their call.

The councilor said the issue was already raised at the RDC some months ago, and letters were sent to both GT&T and Digicel.

APNU Councillor Wazir Latiff said the landline service offered by GT&T is no good, and the RDC should put pressure on the utility to improve; but former Member of Parliament (MP) and current RDC Councillor Mr. Farouk Khan, quickly rose to remind the APNU Councillor about some history.
He said the previous People’s National Congress (PNC) Government had sold the GT&T and signed a monopoly agreement, because of which Essequibians are now getting the bitter fruit of the monopoly, which is very bad service.