These BPL people have NO conscience ........ they make FIVE times the average salary of a line staff civil servant and still want more .......... What can be done about this greed????????

@sheeprunner12 - Your attitude is one given to you by the corrupt politicians and elites who play Bahamian citizens against each other. The industrial salary is on par with others. In fact, if BPL employees were to be replaced by foreigners, then they would get paid much more as in the case of the BPL manager of Abaco and W&S manager Eleuthera. The politicians and elites do not want the average Bahamian salary to rise but to remain low - and to eradicate what is left of good jobs for Bahamians. Be happy that some Bahamians are still getting good salaries as those jobs and skill sets are on the way to extinction (eg Batelco). Who do you think are manning the BPL Wartsilla plant?

BPL is almost $1 billion in public debt to the Government/people ...... so who will have the money to continue to bail out this garbage corporation? ...... This is still the old BEC that was "dressed up" by the crooked Christie regime under Gravy Davis during the last PLP regime..

A big albatross that must be liquidated and sold off ..... like many others.

sounds like spoilt brats to me. poor babies don't like their job. At least they have one, and a pretty good one too. What is the average salary at BPL? Faulty payroll system - do they mean not getting paid for days they didn't go to work like in the old days? And if a generator breaks down due to lack of maintenance is that a staff problem or a management problem? surely you can't blame the equipment for not being able to change its own oil.

Anyone involved with BPL can congratulate themselves on being part of the reason this country is in the situation it is. They have never been able to keep the power on, and charge a fortune for the lousy service they give. I am sure most people would be happy when the day comes and we can be rid of BPL.

These Union clowns are at it again? Why can't these roaches stay in the shadows and leave the rest of us right-thinking Bahamians alone?

Unions should now be outlawed. They served their purposes back in the day when Pindling and his clowns robbed from everyone and everywhere.

Just look at the front line marchers. . .that is how we do it right before election times!! If the PLP is the government. . .the whole damn FNM supporters unions all over the place "making upset" to make the government look bad. And if the FNM is government the PLP supporters unions all over the place "causing upset". . . that how we do this thing!!

Ya know BPL "carn even fix they mouths" to say the things they are saying. . .they gatta be crazy!! I want to know who they are giving the services to? It sure can't be us? Hell, "one lil" rain and ya wondering if ya light will stay on!! Yinna een got a hope if there is a "lil piece" of lightening!!

Relax peoples them. . .this is how we do it around election times!!

You want to know what a D average looks like? Look at the top picture. That's a bunch of D's following a D- over a cliff.

These union leaders are not just dumb. They are criminal thugs of the highest order who very deliberately instigate the sabotaging of very expensive equipment by their Gestapo squad of union members if their extortionist demands are not met.

LOL. So true

All of the more senior union thugs in our country today have been shepherded and protected by our corrupt politicians who seem to fear them more than they fear the Bahamian voters.

Minnis, Bannister, Dames, Foulkes and the entire board of directors and senior management team at BPL have allowed the senior union thugs to have free reign in instigating the terrorization of the Bahamian people and businesses with power failures caused by the sabotaging of turbines, generators, transformers and grid lines.

And because no one responsible for these treacherous activities is ever arrested or made accountable in any serious way for their criminal conduct, the Bahamian people and our nation's businesses and economy are made to suffer from the extortionist tactics of these criminal union thugs that are always deliberately timed to occur at the hottest time of the year.

These thuggush union leaders, and our corrupt politicians who are forever kowtowing to their extortionist criminal behaviour, are without a doubt all a most serious threat to our national security and the overall well-being of the Bahamian people.

Indeed, indeed tru, tru views very good Tribanon, but then again earlier this same month, weeks, days ago, these unionists were parading with their political supporters on a Covid restricted parade, but now weeks days later same month their well populated political tee shirt group is nowhere in sight! not one in sight. Their political supporters just very cleverly sweethearted them an nowhere to be seen.

BPL historically ahs been overstaffed and employees were fleecing the system salarywise. Added to this we are getting a substandard service at a very high cost. If management is bringing in foreigners to do jobs that locals can do this further exacerbates the situation. Can we please privatize this company and move on. This is a gross waste of taxpayer money.

BPL's line staff union would rather sink the entire company than let it be ran efficiently. Its clear that BPL financial status is in a hole but that does not mean anything to this union and the union president.

Most of these BPL workers have basic HS education with some OTJ training ........ but get paid as if they are top skilled civil servants with Masters degrees.

Hard to figure out this salary discrepancy .........

I would be very interested in hearing what the former Director of Generation, as well as what the former Board Members take is on this. I am wondering why Wartsila was not initially approved, but suddenly after the quick exit of the former Director of Generation this company was back in the picture. My guess is there was a reason BPL chose not to go with this company initially and we are as consumers experiencing why (faulty engines), of course after spending millions of tax payer dollars on these engines. This court case between the former Directors and the Government needs to be heard!! I think as tax payers it will be shocking what has happened under present Management and Board at this company.

Let the Bahamian People know what these so-called BPL Executives & senior managers get paid & perks .......... at our expense and inconvenience when a surge burns up our equipment/appliances with no refund etc ............ Who is accountable to who??????? ........... Bannister etc just cover for their crap.

Yes Wartsila, who operate in a huge number of countries around the world, with no issues, is responsible for Bahamas having faulty engines. Bahamas where BPL and BEC before have never been able to run the engines well for a short period of time. Makes sense

Actually it does make sense when you step back and see the amount of money (100M plus) that has been paid for these engines..that are being run only by persons from Wartsila.. and yet we are still experiencing outages. Bahamar is running on generator and Atlantis has not even close to capacity. So yes I would ask as a taxpayer why this is happening.

It doesn't make sense. Like Dawes says, they have a considerable worldwide presence, and a business that is successful seemingly everywhere except The Bahamas (Nassau). The fact that Emera has been successful in keeping the lights on in Grand Bahama for a while now, would suggest that the problem lies with the BPC/BEC workforce or management

Yes Emera has been successful and didn’t they let go BPL‘S present CEO? So I agree with you it appears Managment may be the problem. But since Wartsila persons are being paid to keep the engines on I still want to know why they cannot.

BPL apparently has problems that are not just limited to the Union eligible employees. Management has not been able to secure an agreement with a world class provider of LNG. Management has not been able to ensure that the delivery of fuel oil that meets industry quality standards.
Management has not been able eliminate the ongoing fuel oil pollution of the environment.
Management has not been able to ensure the safe and reliable delivery of electricity to the customer base.
Management has not been able to submit, process and account for payments or non payments for electrical energy use throughout the country.
Who is responsible for Management? The Bahamian Government.

Maybe the Union needs more white members . Just don’t let them go home and come back when they disgruntled.