HOUSEHOLDERS yesterday reacted with anger at the possibility of an increase in electricity rates this month, with some saying that any such hike would be cruel at this time.
According to the majority of persons polled by the Observer in Cross Roads and New Kingston in the early afternoon, the Office of Utilities Regulation (OUR), which is to decide on the annual inflation adjustment to non-fuel electricity rates, should not grant the Jamaica Public Service Company (JPS) an increase.