*Repost:* This short pudgy imbecile with his short stubby grubby dirty yellow sticky fingers has somehow managed to forget that he was a senior member of the most corrupt cabinet in the history of our country. Davis played an instrumental role in suppressing law enforcement while he and his fellow cabinet members under the corrupt Christie-led PLP government were lining their pockets and the pockets of their family members, business cronies and political friends. The directors they appointed to the boards of government owned and/or controlled entities, like BPL, allowed themselves to become mere puppets who all too easily kowtowed to the misconduct and fraudulent activities of the more senior Christie cabinet ministers, and Davis was certainly one of those corrupt cabinet ministers.

Comrades! The PLP, shouldn't get too comfortable as the Official Opposition Party.
I cannot believe the prospects are high for getting this band old-guard PLP's back together to prepare the PLP to even remain Her Majesty's Official Opposition Party - much less towards governing victory come the 2022 General Election. The PLP should be weary of contesting any of the likely to happen By elections that pop's up between now and 2022.

How did these corporation Board pay scales get so out of whack???? ....... BPL CEO can make over $400K a year ....... BTC CEO makes?????? ......... Well, how much does the other CEOs make???? like Bahamasair, NIB, BOB, Water & Sewerage, etc. ....... a civil servant who is Director in charge of thousands of employees makes just $70,000 ....... a Commissioner of Police about the same ...... The PM makes about $120,000 ........ How can anyone justify this BEC salary?????

Convoluted AND corrupt. Obviously the Public was meant to be so baffled by all the levels of murky b.s. that the outrageous asininity of the deal would remain obscured.

I think the kick backs aren't an issue unless we aoply context. Not that its justified because it was status quo. But, we kept electing the same group of old folk expecting change. I didn't vote for the them, admittedly. While they appear to be making moves, they haven't brought any harvest. After two years in office I want reliable status report from the benchmark left by the plp the changes or policies and agreements approved by parliament to remedy.

But for now, I see the same swagger of attempt to change while onboarding many politically aligned consultants to replace the old politically aligned folk. In my work, I see some first hand that issues are on moving continuous without even tone at the top or board policies initiated to address the highly publicized criticisms of the plp. Not benefiting from and government party influences, I just hope we get something from this spectacle.

He's right once again. The board does set the salary for the CEO, the board identifies what they need in a CEO and the board hires the CEO.

You can put in all of the fancy processes and procedures you want, pass all kinds of fiscal responsibility acts to say look what we doing. If you put the wrong unethical, inexperienced, tiefin, characterless, financially indebted people in charge of the money and the contracts...nothing will change.

I've seen two types of appointees over the past five years inclusive of administration change, book smart people who won't make a fuss and will do whatever you tell them, you basically using their "good name", then you have the sharks who will facilitate the wheeling and dealing.

Watch the PEOPLE they put in charge, not the rules and processes they put in place. People first, processes second.

I hear you ....... but these are public boards who get public stipends to run public corporations using public funds to pay personnel who must be accountable to the public/citizens ........ but, who cares???????

I'm on your side

On a purely technical point, I'm saying "he's right", the board does set the salary for the CEO. But my bigger point was who are the "people" on the board? If you place the wrong people, they will abuse the process either through ignorance or direct manipulation. The "process" becomes meaningless no matter how Lilly white and well intentioned the process is.

I am making an even greater point, the appointments made POST election, leave us open to these very same abuses. More open in fact, because who believes Sir Lancelot is going to crook them? Sir Lancelot will raid the entire castle and have the gold stored in a land far far away before Merlin can wave his wand once.

Sooooo, how much does each BPL/BEC Board member get paid to sit on this Board??? .......... Is this info published anywhere???? ........ The Government has set up 104 Boards ....... How much do these Boards cost the country???
Or ...... is there some $$$$$$$catch for sitting on these Boards??????