By David Renwick
11th March, 2014
With about 15 months to go before the next general election, which the incumbent People’s Partnership (PP) government (if, indeed, it’s even a partnership by then), could well lose, Energy and Energy Affairs Minister, Kevin Christian Ramnarine, appears to be re-doubling his effort to achieve as much as he can during the period that is left to him.
He has set himself a packed agenda for 2014, the highlight of which is likely to be the appearance – finally – of the PP administration’s energy policy. The draft green paper has already been in circulation for several years so a definitive document is long outstanding. Both Jamaica and Barbados have long produced formal energy policies and even Caricom, as a block, was able to do so in March, 2013, so it is curious that the region’s undisputed energy hub has been so lax in following suit.