The joke is on HAI and the FNM .......... they sold BaTelCo for a bowl of porridge.......... and the underwater fibre optic cable as well.

yes, I just bought an ALIV smart phone.

I went to BTC first, hoping to keep my current cell number.

The sales person was not interest, their stock was low, and walked away several times from me and I had to keep calling her.

As I gave up, another employee, shouted from the back:"Thank you for coming, hope to see you soon." I replied : You all are not interested in selling anything.

I went to ALIV, their phone was only about 25 dollars more than the equivalent at BTC, Since the sales person was busy, I was asked to take a seat and, while completing her task, she reassured me several times, "I'll be right with you". I bought the phone,

The Truth can burn, especially if it has been ignored for decades.
BTW, What Nair observed in the P.M.'s demeanor is often seen, and half our problem.
We ignore all but those who tell us what we want to hear.

One thing for sure is we don’t see a big demand for our labor around the region.

People from everywhere are here working, but when you travel to another country in our region and it’s extremely rare to find a Bahamian working there.

Whatever that means.

But more honestly, we know all but a very few in our nation are lazy and entitled.

We can deny this forever, but we are experiencing the results from this in all aspects of our lives.
Nothing works well here, you get less than half of what you pay for, you can’t get anything fixed or built right. It’s really really frustrating.

Nair's remarks were rightfully aimed at Minnis and nobody else despite Minnis's efforts to cast Nair's net much wider in the hope of stoking some kind of nationalist wave of support which won't even amount to a ripple if anything at all.

Minnis knows there are no jobs anywhere (other than our civil workforce) for Bahamians who have gone through our failed E- public education system. And Nair knows Minnis is only rightfully reaping what has been produced from the seeds sown year after year by his own corrupt FNM government and all previous corrupt PLP and FNM governments alike.

Our arrogant, nasty and most incompetent PM will now do whatever he can to get both Sinclair and Nair terminated. The truth often hearts and try as he may, Minnis cannot deny the truth. LMAO

I know you don,t like Minnis , but that was not all Nair is saying . Lets be real in forty odd years of independence we can not even keep the frigging lights !!!!!!!.If the we did not have close proximity to the U S and beautiful beaches , none of which is our doing we would be starving . When we tried to build our own the hotels , Ammbassador beach etc , it was a frigging disaster .I once dated a teacher that came from Costa Rica and I asked her what was the difference btw kids in school here and Costa Rica .She said here they are ignorant , meaning poorly educated , and arrogant , thinking they are special .A bad combination .On one parent teacher day she was about to tell a parent about a kids bad behavior and a Bahamian teacher told her don, t the mother will attack you verbally and perhaps physically .

Obviously, you reflect exactly what you are saying about the Bahamian children. At your age you are still both ignorant and arrogant with your double, Bahamian hating, no despising, personality. Try sucking lemons.

You prove the Dunning Kruger effect w the majority of you post . Our nationalism gets in the way of critical thinking as our faux religious believes get in the way of personal responsibility . Your name calling raises no emotions in me at all but tells me all I need to know if I was ever in protracted negotiations w you .

We need to stop this foolishness. The first question we should ask is is the statement true, I think we can all agree it is. It would be one thing if it was not true. We will never be better if we do not get our heads out of the sand, come to grips with the reality (not the la la land, false economy that we have been told for years) and fix what needs to be fixed in this country.

... in this country what is more important that if the statement is true is if feelings were hurt or corns got mashed!

Minnis is an idiot and Batelco sucks......it's Wednesday

In forty six years we can,t even keep the lights on ,,PLP ,,FNM I don't care we cant even do something as simple as provide electricity from diesel generation .Damm we cant even try a murderer in 18 months and have to give them bail ..WE are regressing as a nation ,,If I here nation builder one more time I think I will scream

BTC was not worth keeping in 2007 and it's not worth keeping now.

As much as I disliked reading what was said about the BTC employees, I am afraid, if I were honest, I would have to agree with Mr. Nair's statement about them. He is not telling us something that we don't know already. How many times have some of us said the same about Bahamian workers in general. We give lack luster performance and customer service, have negative, entitled attitudes and just expect everything to be handed to us on a platter. What makes matters worse are the union leaders who continue to advocate for such poor performance.

If you want to see what Mr. Nair is talking about, just take a look at what has taken place over the past few months in this country with workers. Everyone's going on strike but yet the service and performance sucks; Water and Sewage, hotel workers, nurses, doctors, and the list goes on!

Don't get mad at Mr. Nair, let's fix our performance and attitudes, we are not the only place where people can do business. I can't blame the Prime Minister for wanting to put his workers first, but he has to first make sure that his workers are up to international standards.

We have to stop taking tea breaks as soon as we get to work, stop going on 2 hour lunch breaks, stop calling out sick to travel to Miami, stop giving attitude when we are asked a question or two. Customer service and pride in our work are key to a successful business; whether it is a government owned one or a private sector one.

Let's take what Mr. Nair said about BTC workers and use it as a catalyst to improve our overall productivity!

The first order of business to right our own ship by improving productivity is to throw Minnis overboard.

I wholeheartedly agree with your comments.

Buddy there is a big difference walking into a BTC store and walking into an Aliv store....this is no hidden secret.

The PM goes internationally and calls the Bahamas corrupt. When BTC was to be
sold the FNM Papa said no Bahamians need apply. he said they the Bahamians could
not manage BTC. so he just gave it away to foreigners, for a very small price.

The FNM Government can not find Bahamian lawyers to work in the court system
they have to employ lawyers from Africa. As I have said before. the doc has only
to open his mouth and all with just a little common sense knows.

Mr Pindling

, Nor Mr; Christie never spoke ill of the Bahamas or its people
But the FNM Government does, It has been documented.

"Mr Pindling, Nor Mr; Christie never spoke ill of the Bahamas or its people"

NO - they just stole from them and made fools of them!

GROW UP!

@ Birdie FNM Papa made shares avaiuable in the port for Bahamians for as little as five hundred dollars , did you buy any ??He also made it so civil servants could buy shares in the port and have it deducted from their pay w no interest , did any of your civil servant friends get any ??

Comrade Sister Pakesia, whilst words BTC's Balan may be disrespectful and distasteful, but weren't they spoken intended a free Colony of Out Islands, so why rush call consequences for insulting Imperials but not for African monkey calling, yes, true.......

The FNM response to this matter is so poor. They attack the PLP and not Balan
Nair, How dumb is that?

When the smoke all clears the customer is king. IF he is not happy with a product he should move on from it. I fired BTC 3 years now... Aliv is the time. BTC is private, not like those days when it was bloated. Maybe that 2% percent that Perry got back can help out a bit.

Send this Idiot back to Jamaica, along with the “fronted” Yello Gang, who have ruined the BTC Yellow Page business and are also Jamaican and were preferred over the BTC Employee Group due to insider kick backs!

the yellow pages were ruined long before that, when thry put in the hands of a very very lazy bahamian with many letters behind her name. she got a golden parachute eventually.

Shares in the Port??. eleven families own 40% all of the Bahamas Government own 40%
and 30 thousand or more Bahamians own 20% ..

The FNM papa sold BTC just about gave it away. The owners have all of the documents
They know who the FNM fellows. are

Should the FNM papa be proud??

And under the PLP Batelco was not compatible w any other networks while D Bartlett was using BTC buying power , our tax dollars , to wheel and deal and sell telecoms services to TCI etc ..Thank God Papa got
200 million for half a telephone company running on an outdated platform ..Who owned the port before ??could Birdie buy shares in Union dock or John Alfred dock ??

What Balan Nair needs to explain is why so many CEO's and other senior personnel have come and gone from BTC after it became Liberalised. BTC no longer has a soul or a personality. It is like a bus stop or train station, where you always meet a different set of people and hardly ever the same. The family spirit has been consumed and the working environment has become cold and harsh. There have been persons at BTC who have tried to revive and maintain the 'family' structure at BTC, which has paid dividends in the past. But they have been cut and shredded like kast week's newspaper and discarded at the earliest opportunity. And so what you see at the front desk in terms of service, attitude, performance and productivity is what has trickled down from the numerous CEO"s that headed the company in the past few years. A young boy once asked a vet what should he do to make his dog a better guard dog and more protective. The vet response, "make him feel that he is in control of the home and a part of the family. His natural instincts will tell him to guard what is his and to protect those who show him love and affection.' Some people teach a dog to be vicious and attack on command, but after that he doesn't give a shit about who he attacks because he only working for his reputationand a lil bit of food.

Ohh you mean like the warm fuzzy family feeling BEC gives you , and don,t give me nonsense about the contract the PLP signed w Powersecure messing it up .Powersecure was only involved for about four years and we have not been able to keep the lights on since the late 1970 ,s .If your nationalism makes it alright for you to accept mediocre ,, more power to you sitting sweating in the dark , I prefer to think critical and have options for my retirement of how and where I will live .