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Mission Impowerable: Electricity hikes and sadness

There’s an unrelenting assault on our salaries that has been going on unchecked for quite a while. It’s like our paychecks have joined a reality show called Big Brother: The Economy, and every month they get voted off the house by rent, groceries and now electricity tariffs.

You know it’s bad when your salary doesn’t even bother to wave goodbye—it just slips quietly out the back door, leaving a note that says: ‘Don’t wait up, I’m with BPC now.’ At this point, my paycheck isn’t a paycheck. It’s more like a polite suggestion. A whisper. A faint rumor that money once lived here. And every time one opens their bank app, they half expect it to say: ‘404 Balance Not Found.’ Yes, the power tariffs are just about to spike and they are coming to chip away at your salary. Nothing unites humanity quite like the collective gasp of horror when electricity tariffs spike.

So we are going to band together and form support groups like the one they formed in the 80s when teachers were unhappy with a job evaluation exercise. So yes a Tariff Increase Unsatisfied Consumers pressure group might soon be constituted to fight this!

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Editor's Comment
DIS must correct costly stalemate

More than P8.1 million has already been spent, yet there appears to be no lasting solution in sight. This is not simply a dispute between the DIS and a group of officers. It is a matter of public accountability. Every pula spent by government comes from taxpayers who expect public funds to be used wisely and responsibly, especially during economic hardships faced by many.The officers exercised their constitutional right to seek justice through...

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