A BOURDA market vendor alleged that on Monday she was verbally abused and embarrassed by a Guyana Power & Light worker who with no form of identification disconnected her electricity even though the accounts of her two stalls were settled last Friday by her husband. Indira Baldeo said that she was approached by a man who identified himself as Anderson and said that he was in the employ of GPL and had come to disconnect the light.
“He came with a paper and asked for the bill and I tell him my husband have the bill because he had paid it recently. The man holler on me and tell me he don’t have time with that and clipped the wire,” the vendor revealed.
She then asked that he show some kind of identification so that she could be assured that he was indeed an employee of GPL and in an abusive manner he said that his badge was in the car.
According to Indira, the alleged employee began verbally abusing her while he waited on her husband. Upon the arrival of her husband, it was realised that the GPL cashier had mixed up the payments for the two stalls. “The two stalls are in the names Indira Baldeo and Ignatius Baldeo, but the girl mix up the payment and the bill for Indira Baldeo was paid as Ignatius Baldeo,” she said.
The vendor said that she repeatedly offered to show him the bill but he responded by saying she was wasting his time. After realising that there was nothing she could do, the vendor’s husband made a second payment of $3,728 on the bill and paid the reconnection fee. However, the power had not been reconnected up to Tuesday afternoon.