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CHANGING THE NAME FROM BEC TO BPL, FOR WHATEVER CONVOLUTED REASON, DOES NOT CHANGE THE FACT THAT THE CORPORATION AS LED BY THE BAHAMAS GOVERNMENT IS A NATIONAL DISGRACE. AS WITH EVERYTHING ELSE IN THIS POOR COUNTRY, THE HIGH FEES CHARGED FOR POOR SERVICE NEVER GO ANYWHERE BUT TO THE INSATIABLY GREEDY POCKETS OF THE CHOSEN FEW. FOR SHAME. WHY THE POPULATION OF THE BAHAMAS ALLOWS THE GOVERNMENT TO TREAT ITS PEOPLE SO DISGRACEFULLY IS BEYOND ME. IT'S TIME FOR ALL BAHAMIANS, INCLUDING THOSE EMPLOYED BY THE BAHAMAS GOVERNMENT, TO TAKE A STAND FOR WHAT IS RIGHT, FOR THE GOOD OF THE COUNTRY WHICH IS RAPIDLY HEADING SOUTH. THE SITUATION IS DIRE.

13 bucket trucks is a significant number. No wonder several people have said they haven't seen a BEC truck in their area since the storm passed. It is funny that Paul Maynard has provided this information which explains some of the slow restoration but Pam Hill can only say "soon".

Perry should have bitten the bullet and privatized (fire sale to Bahamians) the Family Island electrical plants and then concentrated on revamping the Nassau plant ......... just like Bahamasair should be used to bring tourists to our country as the national flag carrier and privatize the Family Island routes to the local small carriers ............... but the kickbacks and contracts are too tempting to the crooked politicians/cronies

What is so frustrating about this is that Bahamians have no light and Perry and Brave do not have to take responsibility for BEC because they gave control to PowerSecure ........ same thing with how they pass off hurricane relief to NEMA & Shane Gibson ........... and all Perry & Brave have to do is fly around, entertain foreign PMs and donors and give out crony contracts in order to get ready for the election ........... give them credit for their genius!!!!!!!

It's important to have an understanding of the reality of the situation faced by Pamela Hill so that public anger can be focused where it rightfully should be aimed - AT PERRY CHRISTIE! The U.S. company (Power Secure) hired to manage the aged assets of the former BEC (i.e. old poorly maintained and inadequate power generating equipment plus unsatisfactory power distribution system in many areas) have their hands tied by the corrupt Christie-led PLP government. The management company is not responsible for providing the financing necessary to replace and/or upgrade the unsatisfactory and improperly maintained equipment and grid lines that were previously very poorly managed by representatives of the corrupt Christie-led PLP government. Christie and his merry band of bandits have failed in their undertaking made to the U.S. management company that adequate financing would be obtained by the PLP government to replace and/or upgrade the aged assets of the former BEC. But Perry Christie, true to form, has demonstrated his incompetency by failing to put in place an appropriate means of raising the financing for asset upgrades and replacement assets Pamela Hill has told Christie time and time again are absolutely vital in order for Bahamas Power & Light (BPL) to meet our country's electrification needs. Christie knew his government (and the previous Ingraham-led government) had run BEC right into the ground making it impossible for his government to continue managing BEC without considerable political fall out. So what does he do? Christie decides to hire a U.S. management company to manage the former aged assets of BEC under the false pretense that his government would immediately be arranging for adequate financing to put BPL in a good position to meet their management mandate of ensuring a reliable power supply to customers. But this has not happened and now Christie seeks to use BPL/Pamela Hill to absorb the political fall out that should be inflicted on him personally.....Christie has actually now told Pamela Hill that part of her job is to take the political heat for the inadequacies of BPL that are in fact attributable to Christie's own failure to raise the financing necessary for the capital needs of BPL. All of the blame for BPL's shortcomings in restoring power to its customers in the aftermath of Hurricane Matthew properly rest with Christie himself and no one else. Pamela Hill should no longer allow herself to be wrongfully used by Christie as a punching bag for the ferocious blows of public discontentment that should be squarely falling on him personally!

Hold on, a Special Purpose Vehicle and a bond are being issued to pay for the repairs. Prime Minister Crisco Butt is having fun issuing all sorts of new government bonds. Thank god and glory hallelujah for debt bonds!

The CEO's of the local clearing banks, both the Canadian controlled banks and the Bahamian owned ones, should be telling Christie in a blunt forthright manner that they cannot afford to run the finances of their banks in the same way that Christie runs the finances of the Bank of The Bahamas (BoB) and our country; otherwise they would quickly become as financially crippled as BoB and the entire nation of the Bahamas! If Christie wrongfully tries through legislation and/or regulation to force the local clearing banks to buy hurricane relief effort bonds issued by the corrupt Christie-led PLP government, the Canadian controlled banks (RBC, RBC-FINCO, CIBC-FCIB and BNS) should all balk and make plans to exit the Bahamas at the earliest possible time. Christie and his two lackies, Michael Halkitis and John Rolle, have about as much financial sense between them as three budgies accidentally given gin or vodka instead of water!

WTF????? .............. If the local BEC fellas in Long Island planted 800 poles in two weeks with one drill truck and hung them with two bucket trucks, why those lazy ass Nassau fellas cannot work with whatever limited resources they have????? ......... stop the BMW (bitch, moan & whine)

These tings always go deeper than they appear. Each side gives bits and pieces of information to put them in the most favorable light. Management has to cover government and the Union sniffs opportunity to move in for the kill on management. Politicians see it as campaigning material.. such is the nature of democratic society I suppose.

Power Secure (as the management company of BPL) is under no obligation to finance from their own pocket the necessary significant capital and other expenditures needed to quickly restore power to our communities. That obligation rests entirely with the corrupt Christie-led PLP government and, as we all well know, Christie can't bring himself to do anything quickly that is of no financial benefit to himself and his merry band of bandits. After Hurricane Joaquin last year, Pam Hill wrote several letters to NEMA, which she copied to several senior cabinet ministers (including you know who), advising that BPL required government financing to effect critical equipment upgrades in order to be much better prepared to cope with catastrophe events like Hurricane Matthew. But Christie, true to form, did nothing to heed Pam Hill's advice and recommendations. Instead Christie chose to pre-occupy himself with forging personally lucrative relationships with his new found Chinese friends! It is absolutely remarkable that Power Secure has been able to restore power to 70% of its customers within a week of the aftermath of Hurricane Matthew given that Christie has Pam Hill working her butt off with both hands tied behind her back as a result of the many failures of the corrupt Christie-led PLP government! There are many homes and businesses in the Carolinas that are expected to be without power for at least another couple of weeks. Angry Bahamians still without power need to focus their anger where it properly belongs - at none other than Christie himself!