Mr. Evans seems confused, contrary to his belief we do not live in a socialist country. I have a suggestion for Mr. Evans since he is so concerned about these workers, take his salary and give it to BTC so one job can be saved. It is easy to be generous with other people's money, let him lead the way and donate his income.

It is in question as to how independent URCA really is. What is not in question is that their rulings are inconsistent with their own regulations. This calls into question their competence and the rule of law. An URCA regulation is that a basic tv service provider must make a minimum rate of return on their product of 10.86 percent. Cable in an application for a price increase two years ago proved it earned considerably less on its basic tv, in fact the price had not increased in 20 years despite costs increasing substantially. Contrary to their own regulations and the rule of law URCA ruled against a price increase, in effect forcing cable to be in violation. A regulator rules that a telecom entity must be in violation of its own rules. No wonder URCA's independence and competence is in serious doubt.

These incompetent clowns are hindering this country, they have no vision. Costa Rica a small, third world, tourism centric country has for the last 80 days generated 100% of the country's electricity from renewable energy! B.E.C does not generate 1% from renewable energy, so we have load shedding, exorbitant costs, chronic pollution from burning bunker C oil and the list goes on. We need to have vison and start doing things in an intelligent way in this country, we can not afford these dumb, incompetent clowns who are stuck in the last century. Until we generate 1% from renewables Mr. miller should shut the hell up!

http://www.cnbc.com/id/102621070

So the attorney general sits on the rubis environmental report for a year while innocent bahamians are exposed to carcinogens, still has not brought charges against the bec bribe taker although the case has been practically completed by the U.S. , still has not brought charges against minister gray, but finds the time to issue an unsolicited opinion on the auditor's urban renewal report. Seems she has has priorities straight, she is a natural disgrace and needs to go too. Is there no one in this govt with integrity? We need a commission of inquiry to incarcerate this entire cabinet.

Congratulations Birdie, this is the closest you have ever come to even remotely condemning the gross malfeasance of this corrupt govt. Never mind that you sugar coated it as much as possible and it took potentially many innocent bahamians being exposed to deadly carcinogens being deliberately kept in the dark by their " we believe in bahamians " govt. They believe in nothing but themselves, do you think for one second that minister dorsett or Fitzgerald would have their families living in such conditions? And they hid this! It is reprehensible, continue your progress and you might develop a moral bone in your body to speak out for the poor bahamians wronged here.

This entire government is an embarrassment. When questioned as to the delay for releasing the report Mr. dorsett and Mr. Fitzgerald blamed the attorney general's office, meanwhile when questioned as to the year long delay the attorney General said delay, what delay, there was no delay. So we move from two cabinet ministers who pass the buck and avoid any responsibility to one who is in complete denial ( attorney general). They must think the Bahamian people are stupid. Meanwhile, these innocent citizens living nearby have been exposed to heaven knows what toxins. It really is criminal. This is the worst government in the history of the Bahamas, and it is not even close!

You are absolutely right, and if virgin mobile is simply using BTC's flawed and at times overwhelmed infrastructure and is just a reseller of Btc minutes, how is this going to improve on the simply terrible service we now receive with still far too many dropped calls? If we are to advance, virgin mobile simply must not get this second license. It should go to the only 100 % Bahamian company, with most of their own state of the art infrastructure in place, one that is already 29% owned by the Bahamian people - Cable Bahamas.

I for one, will never buy gas from rubis again, if outraged bahamians did the same, Rubis would act differently and these citizens might get some remediation.

Unfortunately our courts in this case seem to be dysfunctional and practically useless, but it seems clear that the govt in not releasing the report and warning vulnerable citizens are liable and certainly rubis seems liable for potentially millions of dollars. If govt and rubis were forced to pay million dollar settlements to these families then there would be action and accountability. There are seemingly no ramifications so the govt hides, rubis dodges and defenseless people suffer.

Thank you Mr. Speaker for your impartiality, now please subpoena these two deadbeat, accountability dodgers as soon as possible, and televise the hearings for all bahamians to see how our tax dollars are being mismanaged and squandered. Vat is onerous on the backs of the Bahamian tax payers and we demand that our tax dollars are not abused through cronyism and incompetence.