The chairman of the Association of Small and Medium Sized Companies in Suriname (Akmos),  Sham Binda, told Times of Suriname that companies are not “the only ones that will bear the burden of the new  electricity tariffs that the EBS wants to introduce but that the entire nation will pay the price.” Binda explained that the high energy tariffs for local companies will narrow the profit margins and that the companies will have to adjust their expenses. “If companies have to adjust their budgets, people will certainly be fired…[+]