Fourteen years after the people of Linden staged a 33-day protest that forced the Government to reverse a controversial electricity tariff increase, much of the broader promise contained in the historic August 21 Agreement remains unfulfilled.

A Partnership for National Unity (APNU) Member of Parliament Sharma Solomon, who was Region Ten Regional Chairman during the 2012 crisis and played a leading role in the resistance to the proposed tariff increase of more than 1,100 percent, is using the anniversary to demand that the State honour the agreement in its entirety.

For Lindeners, Solomon argues, the settlement was never simply about cheaper electricity. It was about participation, economic opportunity, access to land, information and having a meaningful voice in decisions affecting their future.