Dear Editor, I am writing this letter so those like me who were ignorant of the facts will be enlightened. I have been told that the NNP was responsible for the rising cost of gas and the high electricity bills we pay. After doing my research I found out the following facts: NDC was responsible for selling the electricity company and got only 10 million dollars while 5 million was returned to the company to buy a generator. The owners then must have laughed a ‘bellyfull’. They then gave total right to the company to increase prices as they see fit without reserving the government’s rights to question the rates. Not knowing the implications the NNP Government tried to change this but the law required the case to go to international court costing the government millions and millions of dollars and very little hope of winning. The NNP Government later signed the Petro Caribe agreement to help bring benefits to Grenadians and today the new government benefits from millions of dollars going into the treasury from this arrangement. What we want to know is what the monies are being used for. The government has an excellent opportunity now to increase the revenue from the Petro Caribe arrangement if they follow what the former Government started to do by building the farms so other customers can buy from the Petro Caribe arrangement. This will mean more money for Grenada. About the law passed under the former government every 8 weeks the price of gas is reviewed and can go up or down. When the announcement was made that there will be a price increase it was said that the former government was responsible. However when I did the calculations of the 8 weeks it clearly shows that the current administration as soon as they entered office was responsible for changing the price but they waited for months until the IMF questioned it. So they must take full responsibility. The opposition must take a bow for standing up and fighting for the poor which is one of the reasons that the gas cylinder price did not go up. Thank you Doc, keep on fighting for us. S. Charles (The views/opinions expressed in the above article are those of the writer and not necassarily those of the Inside Grenada Staff). Inside Grenada News