We have simply traded in white colonial masters for corrupt black slave masters ( FNM and PLP) under the guise of democracy. Make no mistake you are not free and this government never wants you to be independent or self sufficient. They want you to continue to come on your knees at the table while they eat and beg for some crumbs. " Chairman Miller please turn on my power, my son needs a job." Meanwhile he owes hundred of thousands in outstanding bills. In any civilized country he would have been fired and hung his head in shame. While 7000 Bahamian households are without power ! Because BEC is inefficient and run under patronage to buy votes, and archaic and vision less. This country should encourage and give subsidies for renewable energy, not hinder at every step a person's initiative to free themselves and this country from fossil fuels.

WTF, how dumb are these idiots. First it was illegal to have solar power, then solar panels, inverters are duty free, and net metering is coming and encouraged. Now these systems must be disconnected ! Are these clowns serious. There is a business in Nassau with over 600 panels on their roof and I can not have 12 ? Meanwhile the prime minster runs his house from solar panels. These visonless, selfish, hypocrites need to go. Until these neo-colonial dinosaur wannabes are deposed this country has a bleak future.

We are a society of lawlessness and corruption personified in our government and present prime minister who blatantly refuse to comply with a Supreme Court order. This is a crime, and those officials are criminals and should be incarcerated as such. Our prime minister should be held in contempt of court until this order is complied with. How is there one law for some Bahamians and not for others?

God help us, we are averaging two a night now.

You appear to be uniformed. I did some research and for RBC they do process cheques for non- clients and the fee is $5. Double what it is in the Bahamas. So yes we are being charged 100 % more for the same service in the Bahamas as in Canada.

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Customers need to be proactive and assertive it is the only language the banks understand. There is a price war going on between local banks for very well qualified mortgage holders. This is especially true with firstcaribbean, scotia bank, and finco. I recently went to firstcaribbean and told them I wanted my mortgage reduced otherwise I was moving it to another bank. There was no argument or hard sell, two days later they confirmed that they would reduce the mortgage 2%. Did not even have to go to another bank and present them with a counteroffer. Saved several tens of thousands over the lifetime of the mortgage! If you are a great customer you have a lot of leverage, threaten the banks and save thousands.

The new fees of these Canadian banks are evil. They fall disproportionately on the poor. Do you think for one moment that RBC charges these fees in Canada? Of course not. The central bank is failing in their fiduciary duty to regulate these fees. They should mandate that these Canadian banks can not charge any fee that is not also charged in Canada. Why gouge us as second class clients? It is simple, every fee is 100% profit and in an environment of a huge portfolio of non performing loans, increased taxes, and no oversight by the central bank to protect vulnerable Bahamians it will get worse. Central bank get your act together and regulate these rapacious, predatory banks.

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This holdingco for 51% of the second cell license will be an absolute cash cow. That is why cable has fought so hard and spent so much money to gain 49%. It will be like printing money for the shareholders which is why it is WRONG and an injustice not to offer these shares to the general public. Say the expense to roll out the infrastructure for the second license is 150 million, reasonable given cable's existing infrastructure. The share for the holdingco will be only $75 million, which is peanuts to raise in an IPO. Total profits for the mobile market was 74 million last year. Cable anticipates capturing half of this in five years, or 38 million, with the public holding company earning half this or 17 million. So in five years an investment of 75 million will earn 17 million or a return of 23%. Who would not want to receive in dividends a return of 23% per year for many, many years? So the fix is in for the big boys, and the little man in this country has been excluded and disenfranchised in sharing in the wealth of this nation. We as Bahamians deserve better and the task force overseeing this process should immediately reverse this injustice and offer shares to the general public, smallest orders filled first.

Thank you Birdie, well what separates us is far less than what unites us. It will take a lot more than this to keep long islanders down! The govt was adequate but the private sector and individuals were phenomenal. I saw so many extraordinary acts of kindness that my belief in the innate goodness of humanity has been renewed.

Birdie, here we go again. Dividends were paid Sept 29th just three weeks ago.