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Se­nior Re­porter/Pro­duc­er

Op­po­si­tion Leader Pen­ne­lope Beck­les is warn­ing cit­i­zens to brace for a pos­si­ble in­crease in elec­tric­i­ty rates, which she says could re­sult from the pend­ing nat­ur­al gas price hike an­nounced by the Na­tion­al Gas Com­pa­ny (NGC).

Speak­ing at a Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment me­dia con­fer­ence at the Of­fice of the Op­po­si­tion Leader in Port-of-Spain yes­ter­day, Beck­les cau­tioned that the rip­ple ef­fects of a 70 per cent in­crease in gas prices could ex­tend be­yond in­dus­try.