OUTRAGE OVER POWER HIKE

The Bagong Alyansang Makabayan Southern Mindanao led a hundredpersons on a picket Monday at the Davao Light and Power Company office in Bajada as consumers were irate for paying higher rates in spite of four to six hours of rotational brownouts last April. Bayan said the Aboitiz-owned company has been conditioning the public to pay higher rates, as they blamed the government’s public-private partnership for enforcing the monopoly of elite power players.