Comrades! Before the 2017 General Election bell does gets rung, the red shirts government workers payroll will have grown by 4,320 bodies. Some 200 new consultants/auditors will have been engaged and paid consultancy fees of $407 million. Outside private law firms lawyers engaged will cost taxpayers $24 million by the end their governing mandate?
It appears PM Minnis and KP, may have already hired auditors which have done cost the public treasury $12 million.... all without tenders? Fox Hill Prison and the PMH will become privatised!

Lol the tribune is trying its hardest to discredit the former administration.

This article may work against them though.

If this paper was less politically biased the caption would say something like:

PLP saved 200+ jobs when BPL wanted them gone.

Eileen carron's shirt is as red as her skin after a good slap so I'm not surprised at this caption.

Sadly...BPL...BTC...WSC...NIB, anything that has a government involvement is heavily overstaffed. BPL SHOULD let go the excess staff...

Agreed. BEC is so heavily over staffed 200+ is probably on the low end on how many should be axed. The same holds true for other gov owed corps and ministries

So, it looks like the PLP was willing to fire 200 plus un-needed workers, probably so more of them could get in on the skimming,
and the FNM is scared to have them fired and so fired Power secure instead?
Trying to follow the twisted logic here.........

> .....the current plan is to procure modern HFO (heavy fuel oil) units......

You just know the greedy conniving Snake was involved in this decision in his usual under-handed (or should I say, under-the-table) way!

he actually bears a resemblance to GOT Lord Littlefinger

Didn't Minister Bannister just indicate yesterday that they would reduce the staff by 30%? How does that translate in terms of numbers? 200 or so? No news here except to see that they are following BPL's script.

Repost: The key players at BPL under the corrupt Christie-led PLP government at the time the Management Services Agreement with PowerSecure was negotiated and entered into were the following:

Directors:

o Nathaniel Beneby, Chairman of the Board

o Donna Smith, Deputy Chairperson

o Deepak Bhatnagar, Executive Director

o Daphne Simmons (likely related to then Financial Secretary Simmons)

o Patricia Hermanns

o Andrew Rogers

These directors appointed Jeff Wallace as the new CEO of BPL, effective immediately. Jeff Wallace had more than 35 years of utility experience and had spent the past 10 years as the Vice President of Fuel Procurement for Southern Company, where he had been responsible for managing $7 billion in fuel procurement, planning and delivery programs for 85 power plants.

Kevin Basden, previously General Manager of BEC, then assumed his new role as a Consultant/ Advisor to BPL's board of directors.

Deepak Bhatnagar, who has been leading the process of energy sector reform, served as Executive Director with responsibility for overseeing the activities of BPL to ensure that PowerSecure delivered in accordance with the business plan.

All of the individuals named above bear great responsibility for kowtowing to the political interference in BPL's business affairs by the corrupt Christie-led PLP government. Deepak Bhatnagar in particular was instrumental in doing Christie's bidding, no matter how harmful the consequences of doing so were to BPL. Unbelievably though, Minnis decided to re-appoint Deepak Bhatnagar to BPL's current board of directors!!! This decision by Minnis represents an astonishing error in judgement by our PM, one that must be corrected at the earliest possible time given all that transpired at BPL under the previous corrupt government. Deepak's relationship and involvement with Franklyn Wilson also warrants close scrutiny and, possibly, an outright full blown investigation. The same goes for Nathaniel Beneby's close relationship with Franklyn Wilson a/k/a Snake. As the most senior Bahamian banker at RBC Bahamas, Beneby had a special relationship with Snake as one of his biggest local banking clients.

If BPL's powers to be had just stick to the legal plan on running this company . Instead of throwing out million's and million's of dollars to bogus companies ,ministers and buddy pals. BPL would be a thriving company today, with no need to get rid of hard working staff. This exact thing have been going on much too long now in this Bahamas . It's time for a change.

All of these Bastards are so interconnected and mutually dependent It will take flushing them all down the drain to make any meaningful progress.
Like a bowl of spaghetti, hard to tell each one apart, so tangled up together.
This Deepak Bhatnagar sounds like a winner........here for the slush and pension.

BPL is so overstaffed...with all that staffing one must agree that this is apart of thre problem why consumers suffers...some of these workers need to be made redundant.

Sadly, like most Government agencies and corporations, over-staffed with incompetents. This is something the Government MUST get a handle on if the Bahamas is to pull itself up out of the muck and mire.