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As the Fair Trading Commission (FTC) deliberates over the Barbados Light & Power Company’s (BLPC) request for a hike in electricity rates, one of the intervenors has served notice that he will take the fight as far as the Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) to protect the interests of consumers.Chairman of the Coalition of Concerned Cooperatives and president of the Barbados Sustainable Energy Cooperative Society Limited, Retired Lieutenant Colonel Trevor Browne said on Friday that his fight ...

One of the groups objecting to the Barbados Light & Power (BL&P) request for a rate increase has put the Fair Trading Commission (FTC) on notice that it will be protesting its treatment of intervenors’ concerns.That was disclosed on Friday by the spokesman for the Coalition of Cooperatives, Lieutenant Colonel Trevor Browne in response to a recent decision by the FTC to allow BL&P to exclude certain confidential information from the public during the upcoming rate review hearing.Lt ...