A senior official from the state-owned electricity provider has shot down suggestions that the company was in over its head in the care and maintenance of its newest major asset – the Wadadli Power Plant.

Non-resident Ambassador to the People’s Republic of China David Shoul raised the hackles of members of the main opposition Antigua Labour Party (ALP) when he was a no show at a meeting of the Public Accounts Committee.

Opposition senator EP Chet Greene is hurling Prime Minister Baldwin Spencer’s comments

Leader of the Opposition Lester Bird has sent off letters to two diplomats here and an unnamed overseas agency to find out whether the generators at the China-funded power plant at Crabbes Peninsula are new.

Government and APUA are so far choosing to remain silent, even as damning allegations continue to be made about the new Chinese-built power plant at Crabbs.