You have to laugh at the headline to this article because it's these grossly incompetent and corrupt politicians who have all along been having a free ride at the people's expense.

" [WSC] simply cannot continue to sell water to Bahamian businesses and households at a price below the cost incurred in purchasing it from Consolidated Water".

I have an idea. Why not let Consolidated Water sell directly to WSC customers so it operates like any other utility company in a developed country? Cut out the WSC middleman. Why do we always have to operate like a third world banana republic where the government pontificates every morning to its ppl.

Take WSC out of the middle and save the Bahamas hundreds of millions of dollars over decades of mismanagement.

In this way I don't have to wake up every morning and listen to how Bannister is going to save us and bring us into the 21st Century after having failed to do so for the last half a century.

Lol, give me a break.

I hear you but I'm certainly not in favour of ever letting an American corporation have an outright monopoly over essential things like our supply of water and electricity. Foreign competition, yes; foreign monopoly, no.

Agree with you tribanon.

Instead of a foreign water company let’s get a Bahamian company similar to the Cable Bahamas privatization - zero government onnership.

In fact while we are at it let’s get 2 private Bahamian companies to compete with each other on each island.

Now we have the worst of both world with foreigners selling water to the government who then on sells it to Bahamians at a loss.

I will be so happy when I wake up in the morning and don’t have to listen to Adrian’s bad news. Do they ever have anything positive to say?

you do know that Consolidated Water has Bahamian investors right? Bahamians really own it and get regular dividends. That is real ownership. Not the nonsense people sprint about Bahamians owning WS&C and never received one dividend. But I guess they got 3,000 free gallons each month.

Hopefully, we can just make Consolidated Water the real operator, and New Providence just becomes like the people in Grand Bahama.

does working with someones financial position include those who are not on government salary?

"...the Water & Sewerage Corporation is in dire straits." Adrian Gibson.

No its not. WSC has the Bahamas government guaranteeing all the jobs and an endless supply of money from high interest hard currency loans from European (Credit Suisse) and Supra National Banks (eg. IMF, World Bank, IBD etc).

Once the Bahamas is fully indebted the non transparent global banking system in partnership with the Bahamian government (FNM and PLP) the Bahamas will be fully crippled and dependent on them.

The fix will be in. They will be richer and we will be much much poorer.

To avoid hard currency depletion (hurricane season starts in 4 months) we should start rationing the US dollar reserves now.

Anyone doing any type of contingency planning can see this train wreck.

If the first 3,000 is free, why do i have a minimum charge of $36 for the first 3,000?. If people are using less then that then they will see a price reduction (if i am reading my bill correctly) as i assume they will be getting rid of this charge. In which case they will make less money. Or does he mean they want to charge it as well as the minimum charge?

Not sure Dawes. But I am sure Bannister as a qualified cost accountant with vast experience in running and regulating utility companies will get it correct. I have complete confidence in him.

LMAO

Isn't it about time that all new builds were granted planning permission dependant upon the inclusion of a rain water cistern with a minimum capacity dependant on the type and size of building. Not difficult to do in the early stages of construction..

Only us in The Bahamas like to depend on government for everything rather than be independent and self reliant.

The NATIONAL STADIUM is not being maintained and is in urgent need of repairs. Persons complaining that they were standing in line to collect their NIB checks and large chunks of concrete fell from the building barely missing them. Strangely enough, the stadium is painted the same color of the, now demolished, post office building that had similar problems with large chunks of falling concrete.

Yup. The stadium will soon collapse in on itself; but hopefully not injure anyone.

They are in the process of getting bids to fix the stadium up. Great gift that one.

The sewer lines at the stadium were built with 3/4 inch pipe.
Not for the pea soup eating patrons.

Something just ain't fair... when the legislators losing hundreds of millions of taxpayers dollars ...like tens of millions in BahamasAir, buying the old Grocery store on Gladstone road, millions of dollars overruns on waste treatment plant, going past the new Baseball Stadium going on some $50 million, some $18 millions PMH computer challenges, graded down mountain in Palmetto etcetcetc.....and on the other hand have the ability .....to just recently have the Nurses to plea for their overtime pay in front of Legislatorrs offices. And now to have the ability in this the highest unemployment, poverty levels, for over a year now people lining up for food, and now the legislators ADDED ability to increase price of your drinkable water supply and cause it to get it shutoff along with many others already shut offwho cannot pay., Depriving people from water to live is downright reprehensible !!!!

No Corporation on this planet should have the powers in this Pandemic to make water life sustanance more unaffordable or to deprive people from potable water and ability to shut off connections to ppeople, children, babies, elderly, medically confined in homes etc. living in homes. What next, must people wheel people on medical beds, unemployed, those on wheelchairs, children, poor people to front of legislators offices on Rawson to protest ?????

The FNM did not explain to you how they stopped the construction on the new baseball stadium for about 15 months.

That increase the cost to complete the stadium and the completion date.
Both parties have made a lot of dumb,non-sensical decisions

@BONEFISH, fully agree. Both have made these errors but the irony is that both sides have been sitting in the SAME room while projects have been going on and together while hundreds of millions of taxpayers money wasted. Further irony is the new winning side previous Opposition after electionsthen pplays ignorant and does the ritual of stopping and checking the projects the other side did as though they were not in the same room.

Both major parties in this country have never understood the role of opposition in this system. They simply can not play that role.

The opposition role is simply not to oppose. They should act as a check on the government's power and provide alternative suggestions. Only people in this country do is wait for their time to govern so they can take care of their people.

The late Michael Manley describe this situation long ago in Jamaica. The same as in the Bahamas.

Has anyone seen the two lines of electrical poles running along the highway in Abaco? I would REALLY like the minster to explain this phenomenon.......

Really look forward to the WSC report (savings from Gibson's new projects) at this New Budget debate in May ...... if there is no election campaign going on at that time.