Aug 18, 2026 Features / Columnists, The GHK Lall Column

(Kaieteur News) – “Unusual peak.” In electricity demand. Hon. Minister of Public Utilities and Aviation, Deodat Indar, was unusually clear with a warning to expect blackouts. Appreciate the candor, minister. The Wales Gas-to-Energy, the much-advertised solution, is closing in fast on being two years past due. When that link collapsed, it dragged a bundle of Guyanese with it.

Thanks to Minister Indar, Guyanese are informed of the source(s) of their blackout pains. Demand versus supply. Power plants and powerlines. Substations and feeders. He was on a roll: he threw in the Spanish named child of the scorchers that have left people like me breathless, searching for a bucket of ice. It’s not there. Needs electricity to solidify, and too expensive for a man of my means. After all the billions spent, all the elapsed years, all the warming speeches made, this is what Guyanese hear or read: “unusual peak” in demand. Plus the entanglements that leave locals cursing and shaking their fist at the authorities. Authorities preferred today, so that everyone feels shielded, none targeted.