Enough with the conspiracy theories. More likely this is not an international plot, but some woman with a serious mental disorder. Let’s hope they catch her before some child is harmed.

This twisty, long-winded report could have been boiled down to 4 letters: s-c-a-m.

Philip “Gravy” Davis objects, but cannot even explain the basis for his objection. Anybody who is surprised, raise your hand. Anybody? Bueller? Bueller? Anybody ... ?

Philip “Gravy” Davis apparently cannot read election results. More Bahamians currently believe in leprechauns than believe in the PLP. Mainly, he seems upset that his cell phone quit working. Maybe he should pay his bill.

... well, sure ... you can hope.

Prediction:

The new generators will be installed and they will be beautiful — they will be bright and shiny and clean and will run perfectly for the first few months, giving everybody reliable light and power and AC.

Then the unions and their political cronies will chase the Finns off the island and take over. The proud local union staff will show up now and again, sitting around for a couple of hours, playing with their cell phones and ordering lunch. The maintenance budget will be steadily reduced, shifted over to fat salaries and bonuses, and whatever maintenance funds made available will ... disappear.

Things will break ... nobody will know how to fix them, let alone do preventive maintenance ... and inside two years we’ll all be back in the dark and hot, sweaty summer nights, with no lights or AC, and we’ll just be $95 million poorer for the effort.

I HATE to write this ... but I’d bet on it.

I actually have been to Helsinki, Finland. It is a cold, dark place where they have only about 8 hours of daylight a day ... yet the power was always on, the lights never went out. Maybe we can learn something from that? Eh?

Well, as TalRussell might put it:

“Yes, no, das fizzlementation in dis here Confederations of Out Islands of Republics gon fripple wit masslementation red shirt conch chowder wit Bay Street grubblelanders free dem landcrabs with dissentation, in dem Parliamentarianations, yes, no?”

You are correct in theory. But as we have seen before, if a private firm comes in and tries to get it running efficiently, the unions and workers will scream bloody murder, initiate strikes and slowdowns, and we’ll hear tears of woe on how “Dey robbin’ da poor workin’ folk” by forcing them to actually ... work efficiently.

Good luck privatizing a company that is losing $2 million a year on $8 million in revenues. I mean, really ... who’d buy that?