THE Government has renewed its commitment to providing electricity at affordable costs to remote communities and marginalised groups across Jamaica through a rebranded Rural Electrification Programme (REP).
The programme was incorporated in 1975 with the specific mandate to expand the reach of electricity supply to rural areas, where the provision of such services would not be economically viable for commercial providers of electricity.
Going forward, the REP
THE ongoing debate about the rising cost of electricity has gone viral.
Yesterday, a full-page advertisement was taken out in the Sunday Observer, which asked people to join a Facebook initiative called Fight For Your Light, which gives Jamaicans a forum to express their frustration against high electricity bills and to mobilise support to break the monopoly on the distribution of electricity.
Today, the fight was taken further when telecommunications giant Digicel tweeted,
The National Energy Council has received Cabinet approval and is set to have its first meeting shortly.
Energy Minister Phillip Paulwell told
NEW YORK (AFP)
President Barack Obama is calling anew on Congress to end tax subsidies for the oil and gas industry, saying America needs to develop alternative sources of energy in the face of rising gasoline prices.
Obama said Saturday in his weekly radio and Internet address that he expected Congress to consider in the next few weeks halting $4 billion in tax subsidies, something he hasn’t been able to get through Congress throughout his presidency.
He said the vote would put lawmakers on record on whether they “stand up for oil companies” or “stand up for the American people.”
“They can either place their bets on a fossil
Energy Minister Phillip Paulwell has called a meeting for today Friday March 16
