Excuses, excuses, and more excuses. Meanwhile there are thousands of bahamian homes without electricity because they can not afford it. Does this corrupt, caring , believing in bahamians fraud of a PLP government think about them as they enjoying their air conditioned homes each evening. We should completely privatize BEC and remove any iota of influence from our corrupt, inept, politicians.

Birdie never let the truth get in the way of a good talking point ( lie ). While 40% of the port is in the hands of 20 families, there are more individual bahamian shareholders in the port than in any other company in the history of the Bahamas, all made possible by Hubert Ingraham who gave salary advances to civil servants to buy shares. Bahamians could have owned some of BTC as planned by Ingraham but the PLP cancelled the share offering when they came into office. They have no interest in seeing the average bahamian become a shareholder in the wealth of this country, only for the select few. All for me baby.

Get a phone line from cable.

Relax! All this article is doing is quoting verbatim from a press release from the GBPA concerning the regulation of energy prices for 2016-2019 for Grand Bahama. At no point in the release is there a mention that the power company is considering a rate rise. The headline to this article is not representative of the release and the headline is in no way is supported by the article itself. Read for yourself here:

http://www.thebahamasweekly.com/publish…

Oh Birdie you are so right. The FNM really screwed the bahamian public over cable Bahamas. They made it possible for cable to be 100% Bahamian owned with over 2700 shareholders. They made it possible for NIB to own 22% of cable and the treasury to own 7 %. They made it possible for me and thousands of bahamians to take part in the IPO and buy cable at $1 per share which today closed at a split adjusted $22.50 per share. That is only an increase of 2250% - How horrible! Cable has appreciated over 100% in the last year, allowed me to retire at 43. Do I sound bitter! Needless to say me and all the other bahamians feel screwed by FNM. How dare they empower and believe in bahamians. Now tell your beloved PLP to give the second cell license to cable so me and 2700 other bahamians can get shafted some more just like what the FNM did to us.

Exactly, there is an exclusive club in this country filled with prominent FNM and PLP, who protect each other and grant favors that the common man can only dream about. My father purchased a piece of property in Nassau from the mother of a former deputy prime minister who was granted it by the crown for $1, needless to say my father who was never granted or given anything in his life paid the real price the property was worth. Such corruption! Dr. Minnis clearly has a serious conflict of interest and should resign, Mr. Miller should pay his BEC bill in full, neither will happen because they are in the good old boys exclusive club, one you and I and most hard working, taxpaying bahamians will never be in. Until bahamians condemn
corruption regardless of party affiliation this country will continue to deteriorate. The FNM and PLP elites are slowly but surely destroying this nation for their own selfish advancement.

Just fantastic! What an achievement in rising to the occasion and setting a national record for good measure. So proud to see the bahamian flag as he celebrated on the track in Beijing.

Oh how corruption is endemic in this country. Who in the FNM will condemn this abuse of power? This is a serious conflict of interest and if Dr. Minnis is a man of integrity he should resign for the good of the party and the country. Of course this will not happen, and is why the FNM is likely to lose the next election again as disenfranchised FNM's continue to defect to the DNA. Stop saying that the PLP is corrupt, we know they are even worse than the FNM, but if you are guilty of such a serious conflict of interest do the honorable thing and just leave. Until there is true accountability and we find politicians who are real statesman who put the common good above their own greedy self- interest this country will continue to deteriorate. The FNM and PLP are slowly but surely destroying this country.

How about a psych test for these delusional, hypocritical, narcissistic, corrupt members of parliament who are destroying our beloved country?

Minister Mitchell in his speech conducts himself more like a street thug than a statesman, it is really quite embarrassing and unbecoming in a cabinet minister, as such a narcissist who takes every slight as a horrific personal insult he is wholly ill-suited to his job of diplomacy, and the country's reputation suffers terribly for it.