Bid was received September 2013 (late). What happened during the next 3 years then ?

Thanks for answering my original question. I sincerely didn't know how the 2 compared. And yes, the government should publish results from both.
My next question would be to see when the decline in grade average started, and if anything can correlate to that. I'd be surprised if a D average has been the norm for the past 20-30 years, but who knows?

I agree with what you're saying, but why should private schools have the best brains etc. We are all born more or less equal. It's what goes on around us that shapes our ability to learn and to want to learn. Look at government schools in India for example, they are probably as poor, if not poorer, than the ones in The Bahamas, but they churn out smart well educated kids, who want to learn and do well.

Why? Both have teachers and both have pupils. I would assume they both have similar or identical curriculum's too. It's not the type of building that impacts a pupils ability to learn or a teachers ability to teach. It's either the pupil themselves (probably a direct correlation to their home environment) or the standard of the teacher themselves.

I wonder how the government schools fared against the private schools ? That might tell us something !

I don't see any mention of **foreign** construction workers. I bet he was referring to construction workers coming in from other islands in the Bahamas. They too will need to be put up somewhere during the rebuilding process. Now how many of those Bahamian construction workers have any formal accreditation or training is another matter entirely. My biggest worry would be the quality of workmanship, as you know every person and their dog will be claiming to be an experienced construction worker, when the call goes out and the bell starts ringing.

Most of it is contained by the berms surrounding the tank farm. Some has got out, but it's relatively small amount considering what could have happened. We are not talking Deepwater Horizon contamination here.

"It would shock you to know how little there is left here in the Bahamas that government can tax."

I guess Income and Capital Gains are little then ? Try living in most developed countries if you want to know what heavily taxed is (40-50%, or even more in some countries,if you include Federal, State, County taxes, Social Security, National Insurance etc.) VAT or Sales Tax which are in effect the same thing are a way of life in most countries as well. No one likes paying taxes, but most of us realize it's a necessary evil in order to pay for schools, healthcare, libraries, infrastructure etc. Now how the government spends those taxes is a whole other ball of wax

Well said !!

Not necessarily. Most residential systems don't incorporate battery storage systems (I think the Tesla system is the exception), due to cost, safety and size. In most residential systems the solar power generated reverses the direction of your meter during the day so in effect you have a net negative consumption from the National Grid. Then at night, when you're no longer generating solar power, you take your power from the National Grid. Depending on the time of year and what you have consuming power on a typical day, your net power usage will be either negative or positive. We get a single power bill at the end of each year from our power company.