Giving these idiots press is the greatest mistake,
Bahamians keep eating up their garbage instead of waking up to reality!

I do understand the 'logic' of sorts of the fuel upcharge...but not in this context...because you all failed in maintaining the generators and were forced to run other generators...you eat that, not me. If I am meant to be supplying something to someone on a regular quoted price, and for whatever reason I run out and have to express something in at higher expense to me to meet your demand...sorry, I pay the added expense for my stupidity and oversight, not my customer.

Surely Mr. Neymour knows that if the Government eats it,
the People will eat it!
Invoking Christianity, even the devil can read and quote the Bible.

I agree. Can we please stop using God's name in vain. It's sleazy.

Forcing Bahamians to pay $30 on top of their electricity bill is the same principle as forcing Bahamians to pay VAT. Someone knows nothing about operations and financial management so they are passing the losses incurred on to the customer.

I don't see the comparison. VAT even though it's the wrong king of tax is needed. We need an attentional revenue stream in the Bahamas to cut some of this debt.

REPERCUSSIONS? I think that is the correct spelling. Yeah, a tax is needed. VAT was whipped up because the government is overspending on contracts issued to friends and not collecting duty, property tax, N.I.B. contributions,etc. effectively. They are in a hole and need the citizens to bail them out. A lottery would be better. Those who want to play willfully throw there money at the government. Those who don't get to keep their money.

Without question every country needs taxation to function. The problem here is income tax is simply a more equitable form of taxation than VAT.

Income tax, however, would mean government and the good old boys cartels would have to firstly divulge sources of income & secondly pay a higher amount than the average worker simply because they earn more.

In other words Christie, Ingraham and the sunshine boys are protecting their pockets and joining the Haitians in riding the backs of poor Bahamians.

Vat can be covered if the number house was owned by the government and not some fucking retard buying phantoms get out of here pussy, moneys from the number house suppose to be reinserted back in to the infrastructure of the economy not buying million dollar houses and balling out in clubs.

Perhaps then we should reduce the debt by seizing the offshore accounts of Politicians past and present?
That aught to be a nice tidy not so small fortune.
After all, they wasted/spent/stole it from us.
In what profession other than politics can one get away with what is gotten away with?
There are two, but one so closely associated.....
mention is not really needed.

the back and forth wrangling between these two is quite annoying.

Never thought of BEC as being unchristian but what the hell? You know BEC has be in a a total mess when Comrade Phenton's voice starts sounding rational and reasonable. Just another red shirts leadership hopeful trying establish he campaign platform. Oh yeah, yesterday I heard him say he would not close the door to contesting the party's leadership?

I wonder what would happen if we ALL refused to pay, would/could they disconnect ALL of us?
It has been said that a people get the government they deserve but until more of us let the politicos know that we deserve better it is what it is. I'm beginning to wonder how bad another three years without a Prime Mister will be, its not just BEC that's dysfunctional.

With the strike finally happening, now is the time to sort out these pirates once and for all.

As painful as it will be for everyone, we need to use this opportunity to shut the country down completely and deal with all the nanny the government has been getting away with for 4 decades at the expense of Bahamians.

We don't want to have to go through this strike thing again, so lets bite the bullet get it all done now.

I wonder who was on Phenton's special do not disconnect list........
Hows about they both give their lists to the tribune........

This country is unchristian, it's as simple as that!

The government should cover the cost? How exactly, by increasing VAT? What an idiotic suggestion.

Really, "unchristian"? Mr. Neymour, I am going to need for you to have a few seats and come back with a better suggestion as to how to combat this financial problem, one where the people do not pay directly or indirectly. Or one where we can work on more efficient and less expensive cost.

One thing you learn about in accounting is 'retained earnings'. This is an amount of profit a company keeps in the company for capital investments, renovations expansions or unexpected events. B.E.C should have been on a cycle where it changed one of its engines every 5 years. That way all of its equipment would not grow old at the same time and it would always have reliable equipment. What is going to happen to Bahamasair's aging fleet when it is deem that these aircraft are no longer airworthy and needs to be replaced? Politics and business is not a good thing.

The concept of 'retained earnings' is elementary and makes absolute perfect sense.

But can you think of one instance when the PLP or FNM made a "perfect sense" decision on anything?

Nothing in this dam country functions properly with the exception of freeloading Haitians riding the backs of tax paying Bahamians like donkeys.

@B_I_D___ ..I agree. <img src="http://s04.flagcounter.com/mini/kfoW/bg…" style="display:none">

Where will government get the funds to "cover" this expenditure Mr. Neymour?

Mr. Neymour is obviously one of Hubert Ingrahams jelly belly idiots that tried telling us 49% is the same as 51%.

STFU Phenton!