THE EDITOR, Sir:

I have recently been watching the angry protesters with their electricity bills and I shall now make some comments which are middle-of-the road. When you take a good look at the mobs of people it is quite clear that most or all of them are very poor working class.

During the summer holidays, many low-income homes bring their children and grandchildren from the country to spend the summer in town. I once saw a home with nearly ten children on holidays there. The television was on all day long, the computer was never off, some of the little ones were using irons and anything else that could be turned on electrically was; they used the washing machine every day.

All this happening while mummy is gone to work and the lights overhead are not switched off. Some or most of these consumers deserve the bills they get.

Once I got a bill for $100,000. I paid and then examined my meter. It was in disrepair. The public service refunded me two years of usage with no bills.

Now the JPS itself needs to adjust many areas of its operations including their instruments and should not tell the public that this or that happened because of something on its part and apologise and should, when they come to read a meter, call the consumer to the instrument and explain by pointing to meter face the difference between the last two readings, which might be outrageously high. Be practical, put away theory; some customers cannot read and write and they splurge!

I am, etc.,

DOUGLASSE BURRULACE

Port Morant PO

St Thomas