A Perfect example of politicians/politics being the creators of problems, never the solutions.
Brave adding hot air when his party kicked the issue down the road as much as anyone else.
BEC is one of many Bahamian legacy disasters.

**Translation of Minnis comments:** ".....I'm deeply unhappy....but you know my cabinet was only recently briefed by BPL officials about their short term plan.....and we know BPL ain't got any long term plan in sight yet....foreigners from Philadelphia Gear had to be brought in because BPL has no qualified engineers and won't have any anytime soon.....I finally now understand Bahamians and residents want clear and immediate action....I can now feel your frustration and inconvenience....but keep in mind I have a big generator at my home, so I sleep good even on the hottest nights.....once we fix da crisis with our short term plan we can then think about fixin' da problem long term, but we gotta fix dis crisis first .....Bahamians and residents deserve better....make sure you vote for the FNM candidate in the next general election cause ya FNM gubbermint doing all it can ...... and I know the great people in my constituency gonna vote for me no matter what...."

**Translation of KP Turnquest's comments:** ".....we know you sweating on hot nights is a great inconvenience....but don't come to me to reimburse you for all your BPL fried equipment and appliances....I'm not even gonna declare a three-month moratorium on duty and VAT so all Bahamians and residents can buy and import new appliances and equipment....we know ya personal comfort is impacted....but like Minnis, I got a big home generator so I sleep good on hot nights too...keep in mind I ain't no engineer and only got a layman's ear when BPL engineers start talking to me about all dat technical stuff.....I gotta trust Paul Maynard and his engineers....I'm satisfied there will be a speedy solution even though BPL's CEO say he ain't know when da load shedding gonna stop cause BPL now on a cliff..."

IS THIS THE BEST THESE TWO CLOWNS (MINNIS AND TURNQUEST) CAN DO. TALK IS CHEAP BUT ACCOMPLISHES NADA. INCOMPETENCE IS PLENTY AND FIXES NOTHING. THE MINNIS-LED FNM GOVERNMENT IS CEMENTING ITS LEGACY AS THE WORST GOVERNMENT OUR COUNTRY HAS EVER HAD AND POSSIBLY COULD EVER HAVE.

LOL!

It's really sad that this is the truth lmao

SO MR KNOWS HOW EVERYTHING SHOULD WORK. . .GIVE US HE SOLUTION. . .I DON'T TELL US GO BUY ONE BIG GENERATOR LIKE YOU AND MINNIS DID. . .ALSO WE KNOW THAT YOON NO ENGINEER. . .SO GIVE US THAT LAYMAN EAR. . .HOW TO SOLVE THIS PROBLEM???

Your translations are perfect.

This is a sad case of "however much things change, they remain the same." I worked for
Pepsi in the early seventies and we were plagued by power cuts then, affecting our
business.An American part owner had just come from Florida to check on his investment and
spend a week with his friends here and said that after telling his grandson that he was going
away, he asked him to buy a Micky Mouse outfit for him. His reply in 1972 to his grandson was that he would buy B.E.C. for him. If that conversation were to happen today, the only difference would be to replace B.E.C with B.P.L.

BEC AND BPL are one in the same.........

It is definitely true that both parties have only talked and nothing happened in the past. So the PLP and FNM seem to have **no solutions!!!**<br/>
But truly this is the **WORST IT'S EVER BEEN**!! This power shortage is just ridiculous. <br/><br/>

I long for the days now in previous years when power use to go off maybe once or twice **a week** during load shedding. Instead of now, where it's mostly **one or twice in A DAY!!!!**

And the worst is yet to come.....soon we won't have a reliable supply of potable water!

The colony of out islands voters were offered a proposition that they could punish comrade PM Christie's PLP's. The result was a victory for 35 red shirts opposition's candidates be elevated sit up in House of Assembly as majority party.
The 2017 general election was never about Minnis having a close relationship with 91,408 out islanders responsible electing the opposition to govern colony over 5-year mandate, yes, no .. that feeling about PM's aloofness from even larger segment populaces has only grown be more evident over past 827 days ....

in the main time taxes on the poor goes up $2,oo of bananas cost 2,24, 24 cents for doc
to travel

^^^ Evidence that the power outages are beginning to eat up peoples’ brains.

Ma Comrades, when V. Alfred was colony's minister no VAT on Bananas, BAMSI supplied out islanders with more Bananas than ever seen by any generation out islanders, yes, no ....

The CEO is a chemical engineer with limited experience in generation and was fired from GBP his only job in generation. Rollins does not have an engineering degree of any standard...was A BTC technician....neither apparently are recognized by the governing body of Bahamian Engineers...who in their right mind allows these people to remain on their job let alone take the lead in the energy sector of a country...they and the Board are so out of their depth..but Minnis is sorry!!!! He sympathizes...Seriously!!!! No details on the fire..and we all know why....Minnis should have fired Bannister and gave his replacement instructions to fire board and management. The impact to the country and its GDP is immeasurable and because it was all avoidable it is unconscionable and treasonous. I am sorry but the only conclusion you can come to is that there is collusion of sort happening.

Funny---We didn't seem to have this problem before Independence!!

AND THAT'S A FACT !!!

We lived in Nassau/New Providence in the early to mid seventies and there were problems with power outage.It was very often that we had to use our own generator.Business closed down for hours and no one knew when the power would come up.That is over forty years ago and still BEC is having shortages of power.The population has doubled since then and this has created a major drain on the power source with no major upgrades to the power grids.I know from experience that over the hill, they were stealing power like no tomorrow with little or no control.Now they are paying for it.Upgrade annually and keep the lines/equipment and additional source of power in place and there will be no shortage or outage.Good Luck on fixing the problem.There were more lines crossing roads in houses and coming out ,it looked a spiders web.Stealing power of course.

My brother has five degrees in engineering including Electric /Mechanical/ Steam and he would not take a job to clean up the situation BEC is facing.They need new equipment and more lines and qualified employees to run the system.

I just read that a homeless man in Nassau got a six months in jail for touching a woman's breast without her consent. This seems to be a major sentence for such a small crime considering that a man gets suspended or no jail time for raping a minor.I seen it happen.Apparently the homeless man and the woman both knew each other.What goes here?Is the law fair??