This makes no sense, if everything was ok, why make a 100,000 payment? I suppose his argument is if Shame Ishmael and McSweeney don't have to resign, why should he? This is what the government of *Second Chances* gives us. Gambling under bosses who can speak out on the front page of a leading newspaper and dress down a sitting minister of government without so much as a "boo" from the PM, deputy PM, Minister of National Security or the Minister of Finance. Nothing, "Four" senior officials (reminder: PM+ Minister of Finance= 2 separate minds) and nothing. Worse than the
Pindling era is here.

Now that they have told us what Mr. Miller business owes, are they going to list what other business owe. he can not be the only one who is behind with his bills. if it is not done it means the reports are bias. so in the interest of fairness what companies owe BEC??

yes I think public disclosure and shaming works. More efficiently than hiring tax collectors... so who is next after Dame Pindling?

This didn't come from BEC or the Tribune birdie. Can you pay attention? This came from a whistleblower. What you should be asking for is Whistleblower protection laws to shield people who bring forward evidence of corruption in our public finances.

So we let someone run BEC that complaints and whines about the electricity bill for a business he built that is not profitable and oversized? Wow, after the Voodoo Economists in the Government we also have Voodoo Entrepreneurs running Government Businesses.

Mr. Miller needs to be careful with his generalizations..."Every company in this country, depending on the magnitude, owes BEC money." Unless he means that as a matter of fact, due to it's 'post-paid' nature' that unless you pay at the very second your meter is read, you are always owing something, he needs to tread lightly. ALL of our businesses and homes are current...funny though, I don't ever recall seeing any adjustments to our bill back when they said if you pay 3 months in full and on time...need to go back through our records and see if we actually did get our so called discount...if we miss a single monthly payment they have us disconnected faster than you can blink, so be very careful when you say "Every company in this country, depending on the magnitude, owes BEC money."

Sad and embarrassing ................. but true

The excuses that Miller uses do not placate me at all. I had a business for 10 years (with an equally oversized BEC bill) and BEC never let me go more than 1 day over my due date! The disconnector would show up at the door and I had to pay immediately. Mostly I hadn't paid because I had not received a bill in the mail and time had gotten away from me (still my fault though). I was NEVER given even a 24hour break! Just to show you there are two sets of laws in this country- you and them!

Yup

Does this mean Christie called the Bank of The Bahamas (BOB) and told Paul McWeeney and Richard Demeritte to increase Miller's loan by $100,000? According to The Punch, Miller, Wilchcombe, close friends and business associates of Mrs. Ping and QC McWeeney's spouse, among many other cronies of Christie, all have borrowed big time from BOB, which is a bank majority owned by government and controlled by Christie as Minister of Finance. That guy Ishmael Lightbourne was probably told by Christie to go to BOB to get any money he needs to pay his taxes. Loans made by BOB to Christie's cronies seem to get written-off pretty quickly, e.g. the millions in loans owed by Wilchcombe to BOB which were written-off by BOB according to The Punch. After all, when BOB needs more money all it has to do is call Christie who in turn calls Shameless Shane and tells him to inject more capital into the bank from our National Insurance Funds! This is really too much of joke to even warrant a good laugh!!

Interesting point ................ at least they paid a good portion of the bill. This BOB issue is really troubling though

Shameful mr miller and mrs pindling....just shameful!

Sooooooooooooooo, Leslie Miller is a PLP backbencher, appointed by the PM to chair BEC that is under the Ministry headed by the DPM................. and he says that he is NOT going to resign???????????? That tells you a lot about Leslie, Perry and Lil Brave ........... SMDH

Talking 'bout the Fox guarding the Hen house. Why launch an investigation into who 'leak' this information? whether the motive was political or someone who works at BEC who have been blamed by Min.Miller for not collecting BEC payments from customers, deciding to risk their job doing their duty to The Black, Aquamarine and Gold rather than political party; is just just a waste of taxpayers money and a genius way to intimidate others from doing what is right. What is the 'crime' done? BEC, which the Executive Chairman railed recently about employee not collecting and giving breaks to subscribers, turns out the amount pale in comparison to the $100K his own daughter just paid and still owes basically the same balance! Now I hope my fellow Bahamians now begin to taste what the FOIA will do for our developing democracy. Hypocrisy is hypocrisy! Min. Miller, who quite well knew and probably signed of on his family business owing BEC so much money, while blaming the cashiers and others SHOULD resign! On another note, one of my greatest Bahamian Hero was LOP, regardless of his flaws, he was Black, (not that it mattered if he was 'white') unapologetic, brilliant and had great charisma, that said Dame. Margaret, please pay your bill, seriously, the surname Pindling in the Bahamas, is like the Bushes here in the U.S, in other words, influential, elite, politically connected and wealthy, we know you are connected enough to have it 'disappear', but DO THE RIGHT THING! Dame Margaret it WAS a secret, it's not anymore, please do the right thing, after all the same money you will pay to correct this obvious 'mistake' will be paid back to you from the taxpayers coffer in the near future. BRAVO! BRAVO! to good investigational journalism! Now, Where are the 'OTHERS' skeleton? Looking forward to it! Thanks!

Isn't anyone just a little curious why Leslie (and his family members) just happened to have $100,000 in CASH laying around? Why not just get a bank cheque? What's the source of this huge sum of cash? I sure as hell would want to know, wouldn't you? And if PGC had any shred of integrity, he would be asking the same questions -- after firing Miller.

he still owes $139k ...

SO CUT HIM OFF!