Yeah let's blame the foreigners because we all know Bahamians are so educated, smart and willing to work very hard - haha.

How about making solar and wind energy components duty free instead of burning fuel on an island that has always sun and wind. Let homeowners feed electricity into the grid.

Well said, but of course you must remember Mr. Miller's comment to a similar suggestion when he was running the power grid: "If all the wealthy foreigners go solar, who is going to pay to run the power company?" It should have read, "Who is going to pay for all the skimming by the PLP?"

Co-sign.

Miller is wrong on this.. never in the history of this country have we ever had reliable and affordable electricity..NEVER.. i dont know why it seems to be such a mystery here.. certainly elsewhere, people seem to be able to keep the lights on and they have above ground cables, storms, etc.. what a mystery...

The "mystery" that we can't do is is called Planning, Responsibility for your actions, and Maintenance.

Mr. Miller is a disgrace to humanity.
After reading the papers yesterday alone, with the murder rates, obesity, diabetes, the stolen monies from EVERY BAHAMIAN governmental agency, the politically connected web shops sucking this small nation dry, Mr. Miller would like us to believe that Bahamians are to be trusted. Fix one thing first, and perhaps Mr. Miller, a thinking person would say, OK try to fix the next thing.
Anyone who can't see the trajectory of this once wonderful chain of islands is blind. Foreigners did not bring this small country to its' knees. We did it to ourselves. And, continuing to give a small-minded full scale loser and scam artist like Leslie Miller a say in anything is the best recipe for continuing down this road to hell.

> "It is just amazing to me. If Mr
> Christie allowed the former board to
> stay in place and follow through on
> our plans, the Bahamian would not have
> these problems. We had financing
> through the Danish Import Export Bank
> and we were getting a loan at a 2 per
> cent interest rate that would have
> significantly reduced the fuel costs
> to Bahamians," Mr Miller said.

The Danish are bahamians?

or is he talking about the petrocarib folly?

has he paid his bill yet?

With CASH, lots of CASH???????

To be fair to Leslie Miller ....... He did not support Perry & Brave's decisions to reform BEC under the last TWO PLP regimes ........... But his LNG, employees, and plant plans were frustrated and eventually pushed aside .......... Leslie may get a BEC consultancy soon!!!!!

At first, I didn't like your use of Fook.
However, it is really starting to grow on me, as I share much of the frustration as you.

While you're at it, tell that to Donald Rump!

Lol can we get a "fook you" for the incoming government at the same time?

Or is your view one sided?

This small nation could be at the very top in pretty much all categories. It's such a small but wealthy environment- it's a real shame Bahamians allow a small minority to stop this country by succeeding in every aspect - by filling their own pockets and holding the hand open at every corner.

I could run my own electricity company in your country - made from renewable energy. With a little investment of maybe 2-3 million. Let me buy some land and import solar and wind generators. But with all these showstoppers around the Bahamas is uninvestable for me.

It could be the Switzerland of the Caribbean if it were for all of the dumb people created by the PLP.

What would really work well is power generation with a solar furnace array driving an electrical generation plant.

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The man missed his vocation. He should have been a stand up comic. Every time he opens his mouth, I piss myself laughing.

So why didn't you address the problems Miller when you were Chairman?? The notion that foreigners are the cause of island wide outages and Bahamians would have fixed the issues is the most assinine statement I have ever heard. Leave it to Bahamians - yeah that's why we're so far ahead of the rest of the world, right??

If people like you Mr.Miller had paid their bills maybe BEC would not have been in such a bad situation!

This PLP clan just don't get it. . .he is one on the most glaring problem with BPL. . .friends, family and lovers don't pay any bills! Mr. Miller just please shut-up and leave the stage. . .

I guess we will blame the foreigners for the next 30-40 years. Simple Mr Miller third world politics where you waste money on all sorts of worthless schemes such as expensive clinics that do not open (Exuma), exorbitant salaries for PLP hirings (Baltron Bethel) MP's that don't pay their electricity bills (Mr Leslie Miller), unsecured loans for certain people from BOB and not repaid and lastly the total inability to plan for the future .I think Christies was quite clever because if the new company failed he could blame them and if they succeeded he could have taken the credit. As for Chairman of water and sewerage maybe he would like to live in central Eleuthera which frequently goes for days on end with no water yet they have no problem billing for a lousy 4th world service. Lastly the PLP government borrowed so much money despite VAT and a raft of other tax rises and made so many political hirings that any new government has its hands tied. The PLP operated like a brain dead resident who buys a brand new $30,000 car when his roof is leaking, giving no thought to retraint, accountability and prioritizing his spending..

Well ......... the new MP (Johnson) had very little to say ......... Mackey was very dynamic ........... Hopefully, the FNM Cabinet will acknowledge (and act) that Nassau is not The Bahamas

OMG - just like old days Over Da Hill, tiny house in disrepair with t.v. antenna on roof, freezer chained to the front porch and big, shiny Caddy parked outside. Da Bahamian way. We've come a long way baby!

Miller is part of the problem not part of the solution. His good friend and former Works Minister Brave Davis was the person in the PLP government who spearheaded bringing Powrt Secure to these islands to take over the management and operations of BEC for $900,000 per month. We were given to understand that Power Secure had all the answers and would come in with the manpower, expertise, money and capability to rectify and solve all of the problems with our power systems and with the operation of BEC, so much so that despite protests by Miller decrying the need to bring in this foreign company to run our electricity system, his colleagues had so much confidence in him and the job that he had done that they didn't leave him on the Board of BEC but shipped him off to Water & Sewerage Corporation. By the way, notice the difference in the PLP's attitude: we can't have foreigners running/managing/owing our communications systems but it's okay to turn over the reins of our national power grid to a bunch of foreigners with a new wind from the Carolinas. Miller and his PLP cohorts could have done much more to promote solar energy and the use of new technology. But their mindset was to keep BEC big and bloated and then at the 11th hour before the election float the idea of free electricity for certain unspecified categories of users. The old saying that there's no free lunch applied to that idea as the question like with NHI is how and who is going to pay for it. They were already killing the middle class in this country by coming down hard on tax collection while giving free passes and waivers to their friends and supporters. Miller did a lot of talking but despite all of his talking we never saw any real results at BEC or Water & Sewerage.