Friday, October 31, 2025
The Fusion Superplex complex has been forced to rely on its back-up generator for at least three consecutive days this week after Bahamas Power & Light (BPL) disconnected its electricity supply over an unpaid bill.
Tribune Business understands that the Gladstone Road-based cinema and entertainment complex, which overlooks the intersection with JFK Drive, has been operating on generator power since Monday after BPL acted on what sources alleged was a substantial sum in arrears.
During three consecutive daily visits to the property this week, between Tuesday and Thursday, a Tribune Business reporter confirmed the generator located at the rear of the complex was running continuously to provide power to the entertainment and cinema venue.
Multiple attempts were made to contact Carlos Foulkes, the cinema and entertainment complex's chief executive, for comment. He initially asked this newspaper to submit written messaged questions, but no response was received up to press time and further calls were not answered.
When contacted for comment, Tecoyo Bridgewater, Fusion Superplex’s chief legal officer, said he was unable to speak as he was off-island and would have to follow up on the matter by contacting staff here. No further comment was received from him.
Several hundred persons are understood to be employed at Fusion Superplex. BPL sources, when contacted for comment, did not deny that its power supply had been cut by the state-owned utility and coyly indicated that this is what has happened.
Comments
observer2 says...
I like going to Fusion because it is air conditioned and you can get out of the house but I often wondered to myself how can they afford to pay the electric bill? It must be at least $100,000 a month.
The cost of electricity including back up generators due to the unreliability of BPL is the single largest drag on Bahamian GDP growth.
Businesses large and small, manufacturing and retail have been crushed and many have simply gone out of business.
We can't manufacture, assemble, freeze or keep anything cool in the Bahamas due to electricity cost.
This is by design. The culprits are a government / corporate duopoly, with ownership of power plants, electrical grid, shipping, imports, PPP's, Shell/Focol fuel importation monopoly and centralization of control over every single power plant in every island of the Bahamas. The entire infrastructure is run down, last century and above ground.
The government/corporate control group has frozen out small business participation in electrical generation and is only paying lip service to solar energy. And when they allow solar energy it must be sold to the power monopoly and prices are kept high for every citizen of the Bahamas.
This has eliminated the middle classes.
Posted 3 November 2025, 9:42 a.m. Suggest removal
whatsup says...
Does any politician previous or present pay their BPL Bill?
Posted 4 November 2025, 1:30 p.m. Suggest removal
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