Dear Editor,

I am led to believe that the Portia Simpson Miller-led Administration is “talking blues” with regard to the true cost of energy in another two years.

On one hand is the seemingly hard-working Minister Philip Paulwell, the Office of Utilities Regulation and Jamaica Public Service with Energy World suggesting an estimated cost of US$0.13 per kilowatt hour. However, the confused mutterings of the Minister of Transport, Works and Housing Dr Omar Davies in Parliament sings a different tune.

After claiming that the Goat Islands project would need at least five years to be a reality, and in trying to rationalise the use of the pollutant coal by the Chinese to generate energy, he tells the nation that “they have indicated that there is no new manufacturing activity that they could attract to Jamaica at a (energy) cost of US$0.40 per kilowatt hour. And that is a fact” (Sunday Observer, March 2, 2014).

Why would the Chinese on the Goat Islands or the people of Jamaica be paying US$0.40 per kilowatt hour for energy in the next two years if the Energy World project is feasible?

In which world does the two government ministers live?

Apparently the minister of transport, along with his advisers, has no clue what the proposed government energy policy is in regards to the cost of energy in the next two years. Or is it that someone has misled and minsinformed the people of Jamaica?

What are the facts?

Dudley C McLean II

Mandeville, Manchester

dm15094@gmail.com