Aug 23, 2026 Features / Columnists, The GHK Lall Column

(Kaieteur News) – First, they had their arms wrapped around demand. Then the PPP Govt confessed. It did not. They had plans and visions. Only for those to become blurred. It’s the haze of the “unusually hot” weather, stupid. What’s so hard about understanding an overheated environment? An overheated environment requires a considerable amount of cooling. Cooling calls for electricity. Hon Minister Deodat Indar appealed to the public: please go easy on the electricity. A high minister turned low beggar. Listen to his highness.

First, it was the transmission lines. Overloaded. They wilt in the heat, and they catch cramps under the load. Can’t carry their load. Sounds like billions from the record national budgets went into a big black hole. A contract or two should be reexamined. A contractor or two pulled over, given an auditing third degree. Walk that line. Let’s see how straight and steady the feet are. But the minister isn’t going there. He is prioritising transmission lines that now refuse to transmit. Collapse into a tangle of curled wires and the strong scent of something burning. I thought that Minister Indar was done. He wasn’t. Never was he a minister to put all his eggs in one plastic basket. He walked with reinforcements. Engines.