Linden is confronting an electricity crisis in which demand has more than doubled from approximately 6 megawatts around 2005 to 14–14.5 MW today, even as the town has endured years of economic stagnation and complaints of marginalisation under successive People’s Progressive Party (PPP) administrations.

For  the A Partnership for National Unity (APNU) Member of Parliament K. Sharma Solomon, the power crisis is the latest manifestation of a much deeper problem: government has encouraged economic and industrial growth without building the infrastructure needed to sustain it.

“There is a bigger story behind the electricity struggles now facing Linden and the people of Linden need to understand it,” Solomon said in a statement.