Should've put the ~$500,000 that you guys authorized for those hideous decorations on Bay St. towards obtaining NEW generators.

...and the money that went to Junkanoo Carnival

...and the $482,000 paid to Leno corporate services for the recent BOB share offering which was completely subscribed for by the govt., absolutely criminal, we need to know who owns this company and why the government was ripped off yet again.

I don't know about the government being ripped off but the taxpayers certainly were!

I wonder how the profit on that decorations contract was carved up?

They spend money like it is water, without a care as to how the bills will be paid. They must be stopped. Can the country survive until election?

But of course Davis would still back BPL. After all, he and his kind love darkness. Unfortunately, this admin and the former FNM crew have been playing the people on this matter for years. The sad thing is leaders past and present don't understand that it is imperative for Bahamians to at least enjoy the basic necessities of life, such as power and communications without disruptions, since everything else in the Bahamas is messed up and compounded by the high cost of living. If you ask me both governments have been treating Bahamians like step children for far too long!

Of course the government makes BEC private before shit hits the fan, after they raped BEC did not maintain equipment etc. So now BPL is given the contract and the engines are failimg and everyone is blaming them. In reality BEC ran this operation into the ground prior to BPL and we are now finding out how badly.

Exactly. They're trying to push this off as if BPL is some separate foreign entity. BPL **IS** a non-entity. They have ZERO power. ALL decisions MUST be approved by the government. This is a MOW FAILURE. Just like the garbage and the roads and BAMSI, when that opening again? 3020?

So many reasons and people to blame starting with-
Government not paying their own power bills for decades.
Customers not paying power bills.
Not upgrading and maintaining equipment.
Cronies getting contracts and doing nothing.
Not investing in renewables etc. but mainly it's the inept Govenment getting the wrong generators, not training workers and making bad choices that benefit themselves their cronies and shaft the rest of us.

I say f**k Davis, my light bill has doubled and ain't no one can justify the increase so I'm left paying it, disgusted....

Brave Davis is a slithering crook .......... he invested $100 million in Bahamasair ......... he set up Reward Wells in the LOI scam ........... now he got us into the BPL mess with no clear solution to the nearly $1 Billion needed to solve the BEC crisis ......... and that is not even touching the $50 million BAMSI and $40 UR2.0 schemes wih NO accountability since 2012.

BRAVE NEEDS TO IMPEACHED AND LOCKED UP FOR GROSS PUBLIC MISMANAGEMENT

Watch how Bravis dem and Power Secure a/k/a BPL and BEC are ripping you off: My light bill for last October (2015) was $832.00. The bill for October 2016 is $988.00 (Nine Hundred and Eighty Eight Dollars). But watch this, my power was only on for **one**week in October 2016, because of the hurricane. So in essence, BPL charged me $988.00 for one weeks power supply. If you multiply that bill by 4 to prorate for the full month the bill for October, 2016 would actually be $3,952.00 **YES THREE THOUSAND, NINE HUNDRED AND FIFTY TWO DOLLARS!** But lets not stop there: I was using a generator in which I had to put $190.00 fuel in every four days. So over a three week period, I spent $950.00 on fuel for the generator. So in essence I spent $1,938.00 ($988.00 to BEC plus $950.00 in fuel) for power during the month of October. A bill that cost me $832.00 just last year. On another BEC meter which is only a security light and a water pump I got a bill for $555.00 for October 2016. This bill was $26.30 for October last year. And BPL has printed on the bill that the consumption has increased by 1080%. (one thousand and Eighty percent). But it does not end there. The power on this meter was also off for 3 weeks in October. So if you prorate the bill for the entire month it would be $2,220.00. So a bill gone from $26.30 to $2,2220.00 in one month...an increase of 4000 percent! and this man Brave Davis gat the nerve to tell you that there has been no increase in power... Then when they cutting you off four and five times a month, sometimes more, now and you are getting the same light bill what does that mean..they charging you for when the power off!.. sucking every red cent out your pocket...yall ainn serious.

Been dere, done dat .............. that is just the way it is bulla

after the storm, i only lost power for 3 days.

Last september: 89, this September 88
Last october 60, this october 50

plese report if you get the difference back in november John.

Hi John, I had a similar experience. However I had $2,000 of generator repairs, blown TV, blown gate opener, blown Printer and blown A/c unit. So add to the fake BEC bills for power not used, diesel fuel and lost productivity and BEC has cost me over $10,000. The cost and power cuts are on going. We really need to get rid of this company (BEC and BPL). While you're at it, change the government as well.

Changing the government should be at the top of the list.

The one picture above with the short stubby grubby dirty yellow sticky fingers is indeed as crooked as they come, but he is a mere tool of distraction for the King Crook himself. To KING CROOK CHRISTIE WE ALL SAY: Stop trying to distance yourself from the very problem that YOU created Mr. Crooked Christie. Yes, YOU Mr. Crooked Christie are responsible for the power outages and yes YOU Mr. Crooked Christie (and the very greedy fuel supplier Sir Snake) already know full well why these recurring outages are occurring with increasing frequency and for longer periods of time. The suffering Bahamian people and ailing businesses are not so easily fooled by your patently false and condescending pleas of ignorance, as if the many years of the now bankrupt BEC's problems created by YOU, and tossed by YOU for political distancing purposes only to the management company BPL, have only just come to your attention. Your efforts Mr. Crooked Christie to deceive the Bahamian people make you look like the corrupt fool that YOU truly are! Yes Mr. Crooked Christie, you are truly an emperor without clothes because the Bahamian people can clearly see straight through that very ornately decorated yellow robe that you now wear to please your corrupt Red China friends.

Dosen't that guy at the top of the article just exudes corruption,kleptocracy?