Fix BPL, don't do this band aid stuff which doesn't help most people. Fix it, which should have been done by all your predecessors. If we could reduce our BPL bills by 50% imagine the economic activity this would lead to on productive items. But i expect nothing will happen in the short term as everyone working out how to get their piece of the pie. If you were really serious you would make it legal for all to go off grid and for BPL to buy off these people any excess they have.

I agree with you 100%. I live in Long Island and I would like to put up sufficient solar panels to cover my entire energy needs. I would even be willing to go beyond 100% so that I could sell clean energy back to BPL, but I am limited to a mere 4kw because they do want Bahamians off the grid or generating clean energy, they want us to be shackled to an inefficient monopoly BPL forever. Worse yet is the paperwork. I understand not even the very first application to put in solar has been forwarded from BPL offices in Long Island to URCA to be approved. All to enslave Bahamians to govt owned BPL. This is over a YEAR. This govt words are worthless when talking about renewable energy. A total SHAM, not even worth the breath used to utter them. We are mired in the inefficient past. I am very angry and intend to raise this issue with my parliamentary representative.

This Government, like its predecessor, is the personification of clueless and inefficient. As for bandaids, they must import them by the container!

If this bozo of a PM and his inept Minister of Finance had truly cared about easing the people's pain they would have never hiked VAT by 60% from 7.5% to 12%. These idiots have no idea how much it costs the taxpayers in terms of added administrative costs each time they have to roll or dial back their earlier foolishness, even if only partially. LMAO

Childish as usual. . .foolish at best!! Based on your reasoning they would have had to known that we were going to encounter this dilemma with light bills. . .since them nor you have clairvoyant skills you make very little common sense!! So now you are requesting that they go "backwards" to fix this problem. . .a problem that will create another problem after we go backwards to solve a current problem. . .so then if we "solve the current problem". . .then we will have two problems to deal with later on down!! See how lost and nonsensical you are reasoning?

Not really. They wouldnt have had to have "known". What they needed to do was "plan".

In that planning they would have had to have done an elusive practice some from far away lands call risk analysis. They would have sat around the table and thrown out every worse case scenario they coukd think of. One of those obvious worse case scenarios is one of the engines goes down and never comes back up. Funny enough I and probably 100,000 other bahamians thought of that scenario after the great 12 hour blackout followed by the equally great post hurricane month without electricity

You FNM people need to get down on your people to first find qualified people for these critical posts, being "smart" is not enough. You need wisdom and experience so you dont do things like spend one million dollars to send three guys to court over a $2000 fire hydrant and the court orders you to rehire them, so you dont do things like order an engine restarted and it burns up. Their lack of planning and cronyism is putting all of our lives and livlihoods in great peril.

This has nothing to do with a crystal ball, it has to do with job qualifications

And remember that burning up the engine wasnt the first sign of trouble. The first was the VSEP. Heastily organized and executed to be followed a few weeks later by oops we cant function without those people. Someone need to tell us how these engines work. What Melanie Gibson call it? The absence of "institutional knowledge"

People I too am dang mad for this "muddle" created by this "BPL assault" on the finances of the people. . .especially the "lil man" who cannot. . .I say cannot absorb this outrageous hike in energy charges!! Imagine from a light bill of $120 to $500. . .just for fuel! THIS MUST NOT AND CANNOT STAND!! I ESTIMATE THAT ABOUT 95% OF OUR ENERGY CONSUMERS CAN NOT SUSTAIN THIS UNCONSCIONABLE HIKE AND WILL BE CUT OFF. . .THIS WILL RESULT IN AN ECONOMIC DISASTER!! THIS IS LIKE TAKING THE WHEELS OFF AND SELLING THEM FROM THE NEW CAR TO BUY GAS TO PUT IN THE CAR!!! THEY ARE ASKING US TO CONSERVE ENERGY. . .I AM HOME LATE AT NIGHT AND LEAVES EARLY NEXT MORNING. . .MY HOUSE IS EMPTY ALL DAY. . .WITH EVERYTHING OFF. . .YET NOW MY BILL DON'T GO DOWN! ONLY WAY I CAN CONSERVE NOW IS TO COME OFF THE GRID ALTOGETHER!!

So lets stop talking nonsense and come up with some sound and cogent solutions. . .NO STUPID POLITICAL NONSENSE. . .THIS IS SERIOUS. . .

I agree! All he's doing is talking nonsense!

Heres some sound advice, go ask them to find a qualified CEO and board for an electrical power plant. If you want to understudy some people fine. We cannot afford a CEO who burns up an engine causing our bills to triple.

Next find some real world trained economists with economic modelling experience to fill the top posts at finance. Then you wouldnt be scratching your head asking us what to do.

The most frightening thing about this entire scenario is after this affair is over these guys can claim "5 years experience"

Why do these people insist on calling the excessive electrical rate "fuel surcharge"? Are they so useless they cannot even call the charge what it is, an unreasonably high utility rate? Calling it fuel surcharge does nothing to ease the burden on the consumer and the cost of living in this country.

Any real word on the three BEC fires or have they been swept under the table??

Ma comrades this is Intentional distraction smoke screens orchestrated by republican strategists working deep behind the policeman's guarded doors the PMO.
Not single blog how Imperial red cabinet's greed is now after $100 million sitting in dormant bank accounts.... StreetCornersTalk has it as the reds move forward with their secretly prepared plans for early 2019 introduce income tax on working classes - they will force banks reveal personal banking information on THOUSANDS banks customers financiasl stuff ,,,,, be's the reds way show their love and appreciation for the 91,409 voting 35 red shirts candidates 10 May 2017. { Can't just make this up }.

the exemption onthe bill is foolish.
what they should do is zero-rate bpls fuel to reduce the bill and thus benefit everyone.
but they are greedy.

roc wit doc caused the PAIN IN THE FIRST PLACE.. Now the Savior of the

of the Bahamas

says he is easing Pain. It is all good for the peoples time voters

The shifting sands of Government/BEC/BPL/works/URCA"policy" on Solar is ridiculous,
and the #1 barrier to widespread adoption.
Probably easier to put up panels on the West Bank or Gaza Strip!
Certain aspects of the policy are already obsolete in any case given the re-direction of the industry in the first world. They are still trying to figure out how to "control" Alt energy from 10 years ago.

EXCELLENT...,!!!!......We da pore people can use erry bit a help.......erry lil bit helps.....tings hard enuff as it is.....real dead bad fer plenty a us.......best we get it now than two weeks bef
fore election when dey also start paving da road...mind you roads gettin pave even though some places dey coudda do a better job cause it gats puddleswhen it rains...... .... garbage truvk coming regular now an most all the traffic lights working properly....knock on wood.....

In these instances, the millionaires in cabinet are greedy and selfish (including past administrations). They would never implement any tax/fee/contribution that would directly affect themselves or their special interest foreigners; they prefer the working class and small businesses be taxed to death. Get mad Bahamas!