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‘Not enough’ - Barbados Today

For the second time in less than a week Senior Minister Dr William Duguid has publicly chastised the Barbados Light & Power Company (BL&P).This time around the Government Member of Parliament chided the BL&P for only “giving back” $4 million in the last 10 years, describing it as insufficient for a company that has earned “hundreds of millions of dollars” from Barbadians.Last Wednesday, the Senior Minister with responsibility for coordinating infrastructural projects, lambasted the BL&P for not upgrading its electrical poles, something which he said would have made the island’s electricity infrastructure more resilient in a natural disaster.He accused the company of lacking foresight and focusing on its bottomline above all else.However, while speaking in Parliament on Tuesday during debate on the Barbados Economic Recovery and Transformation (BERT) Plan 2022, Dr Duguid revealed that he had received a letter from the BL&P in response to those accusations.He said the BL&P contended it had lived up to its corporate responsibility to Barbados by donating money and equipment to the tune of $4 million, dating back to 2012.But in a stinging rebuttal, Dr Duguid said that amount of money was paltry compared to the BL&P’s profits.
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