Dear Editor,
What happened to the truth shall set you free? What happened to transparency? Fact is we have electrical outages. So let us deal with the situation.
I do not give three hoots what is the cause. I cannot do anything about that because I am not the operator. So my comments about whether the generators are old, young or good looking will not give us current. What in my opinion is necessary is the truth. The people did not sign a contract with GEBE Facebook, and it should not be taken for granted that everyone will be depending on Facebook to know what is happening.
For that matter no government entity should depend on the social media for disbursing any kind of official news to the public. During election time we know all kinds of ways to let the people know why to vote for our parties, use those same means also to let the people know about such an important thing as power outages in their districts.
Did we not learn anything from 1995 (Luis)? I am sure it showed that we are a resilient people. Tell us the truth so that we can be prepared. By doing this you will be on your way to showing us what we can depend on September 26 going forward, but the people have to be informed and prepared how to deal with it together with GEBE.
I do not believe that power outages are a policy of our government. It is said that delivery time for generators or parts is nine weeks. Let us calculate three months until restored. If a load shedding schedule for the districts is set up and made known, would that not be relief to the public, because they know. For instance one hour off, six hours on per district. Then we could know what to do with perishable foods.
By the way, I believe the Health Inspectorate should visit some of those supermarkets and inspect the cold storage. We know what can happen with refrigerated defrosted chicken and meat etc.
Another thought is maybe one whole day off and the rest of the week on per district, during those three months or long periods of time with compulsory power outages. One might be thinking that I believe that I am an expert on load shedding. My answer to that is: we have had so many years with constant emergency power outages that by now we should be the experts on plans for load shedding. This kind of outage plan A, that kind of outage plan B etc.
I understand that “positivity should not give priority to negativity”, but our emergency power outages should justify the exception to this rule. If we know that this problem will not be solved for the next three months and load shedding is going to continue take to place, let us schedule it in a way that the people who already pay so much for their utility bills, and since the installing of those new water meters are paying even more, know ahead of time when there will be outages in their districts so that we all could be prepared.
The hurricane season should also be a factor to motivate those in charge to alleviate that load. We need to know. There could be information letters in the GEBE bills, which never stop coming.
Now this – As a consequence of a discussion among the employees in a botica I was asked how can a Christian political party justify the separation of church and state. The reason for that discussion was how would the Christian party deal with legalization of same sex marriage and all that comes with it if that Christian party becomes the leading party in government? How could that party justify what would seem to be hypocritical?
I assume that the leaders of any Christian party would have prepared themselves for this kind of reaction, so I also am looking forward to explanations. “The people want to know everything”
Russell A. Simmons
