This is not news. The people doing the restoration of the power on the ground were saying that it would have been September 2020.

Of course its impossible, they can't even bury the 70+ bodies stored in a trailer behind the Marsh Harbor clinic and its been over 8 months, they can't even restore Grand Bahama's hospital and its been over 8 months, why would anybody expect power to be back on anytime soon LMAO

That was a very short sojourn, never expected to see you back quite so soon, LMAO

Nodding once for, hell yeah!

If you speaks facts remember that the Grand Bahama Port Authority is ultimately responsible for the hospital.

no foreign team can come in before every single Bahamian stranded abroad is brought home.

Let’s just keep kicking the can down the road. 8 1/2 months after Dorian and BPL is just now coming to the conclusion they might need more help??!? And, then the old song and dance about “well, the homes aren’t built so they really don’t need power”. What about the boast everything would be powered up by March-back in January? Is it any surprise that no one believes anything that is said out of any government official’s mouth. If I worked for BPL I would be so ashamed I would quit. Of course, where else could I get a job and do mediocre work and still get paid?

BPL persons would tell you that they never gave a March date for all to be powered up as they knew that was not possible. Most people are not aware that the entire electrical grid in central was destroyed, Yo don't rebuild that back overnight and that cost money. Amazing how something that took years to put in place we expect back in 2 days and money already not there.

I don't work for BPL, but I'm an engineer and saw what went down over there.

it is a management and money issue pure and simple. and i'd bet the union resisted foreign aid.

I was at a town hall meeting at a church near Treasure Cay where the head of reconstruction ran the meeting. In no uncertain terms, she assured everyone at that meeting that Treasure Cay would be fully powered up by the end of March. Now, as someone else mentioned, they had a grand total of 2 lift trucks and 6 personnel there that I saw. When I asked they BPL guys would it be done by March, they just laughed. All of Abaco would be a big task. Treasure Cay isn't. But, it goes to my point that the government personnel spout out things that just aren't true. Then, why should we believe them about anything else. And, I haven't seen one correction by anyone at BPL or Reconstruction that targets a different date. If this was a private company with this communication they would be out of business.

I think what people looking for is a plan. The plan says what happens when by whom and at what cost. They could have told us 2 years and ticked off completed deliverables every quarter. But the announcement out of the blue moon makes it seem like they just realized hurricane season coming and we won't be ready..whether that's true or not

They established the delivery unit but it's literally like they havent done a single plan in 3 years (or tracked a plan). Just reacting.

@moncurcool, sadly many Bahamians believe that they are experts on subjects that they have no clue about. Glad that you have brought some reality to this conversation.

Look on the Brightside, the people of Abaco are well versed in generator operation.

So much simpler and honest to state that homes that are badly damaged and basically uninhabitable cannot and will not be reconnected. If you have seen the damage you will recognise that many buildings are too far gone to even be considered for reconnection. BPL has been agonisingly slow in their work in central Abaco, that much is obvious, but the unpleasant truth is that Marsh Harbour has suffered a terrible blow from which there is no quick recovery possible. Perhaps BPL management believes that too much honesty will only add to the sense of despair.

Wow, Nassau people jump on FB and complain when their power is off for 1 hour, I can not imagine how they would react if they were in Abaco, living with no power for almost 9
Months! If the help that was offered by power companies around the world right after the storm, was accepted, we might have power now. The government is arrogant and assumes we are all stupid to not see the incompetence regarding the power in Abaco. Well actually the entire situation in Abaco post Dorian. You would think that since Abaco is a cash cow for the treasury of the Bahamas, they would get their act in gear and do something, anything, to get the islands up and running again. And by the way, none of the Cays have power.

..its a little annoying this line about how Abaco is a cash cow, Abaco is not the only place that pays taxes and contributes to the treasury. Furthermore, some white abaconians seem to borde on racist or at the very least entitled. Just let your second home owners rebuild Abaco then.

How is Abaco A cash cow compared to Nassau. If Abaco is such a cash cow then let them pay real property like those in Nassau do.

**I've been told** that several the passengers who boarded both the Freeport and Nassau leg of the flights out of Miami had boarded the Mercy Flights COVID-19 were, in fact, **approved applicants** returning to the colony to take up residence the **six Abaco Domes, left sitting empty** awaiting for their return from abroad?
If so, **will they be traveling on to Abaco?**
Should be an easy, Nod once for yeah, **Six** for no, by the crown's housing and pavilion ministers?

It's impossible 'Minister' Bannister because you and your Government do not know how to prioritize and because you are grossly corrupt and inneficient. You finally dumped a bunch of poles along the highway a month or so ago and left them there to be consumed by seasonal forest fires. Meanwhile Cable Bahamas is digging trench along the same highway in preparation of the laying of THEIR cable. How in the name of God do you just justify your salary? Certainly not by spouting b.s. You have TWO bucket trucks I'm Abaco. Stop lying and resign. How do you and your broke Government propose to pay for foreign work teams??? What is wrong with your own work teams? You and BEC are worse than an entire ton of deplorables. Total restoration is a joke. You idiots have not even scratched the surface. Stop blabbering and resign.

something is seriously wrong. Alot of project management is common sense. I know they have sensible people in these ministries I've interacted with some of them. Something is wrong. Something is getting in the way of taking sensible organized planned out action.

Correction: two bucket trucks IN Abaco.

Geeeee, the Minster of works said the crews suffered “mental fatigue” after working in Marsh Harbour for a while. What does he think all of us in Abaco have been suffering with for 8 1/2 months? Now it’s starting to get warmer. No AC. They keep saying houses can’t be hooked up. Well, they put temporary meters in for building sites. Running a couple of extensions for a small frig or a portable AC would go a long way towards helping me with my “mental fatigue” instead of making constant runs to gas stations. Problem is I can’t leave Abaco after a couple of weeks and live in a house in Nassau with power(unless there are more blackouts) because of my “mental fatigue”. Come on, this isn’t rocket science. Is BPL so poorly managed that in quiet times there are no extra crews to send. God forbid the next hurricane!!

Its taken almost 9 months for you to realize this? Why did you not say so at the start?. Why did you not get outside help, or explain why the cost constraints meant that you couldn't. Why does this country always have useless ministers of works?