You should be embarassed to spew such vile racism toward an ethnic group of people. Reply to this post and print your real name and stand behind this filth, otherwise you are a racist coward. This codified institutional racism was tried before... In nazi Germany's with racist laws against another ethnic group the Jews. We all know how that turned out. Thankfully, saner heads will prevail, and we will try to correct our immigration problem in a humane way. As for real bahamians, I hope you are not a Bahamian because if you are your ignorant grouping and advocation of the racist penalization of a group of bahamians simply on the basis of their heritage is disgusting and embarrassing.

Yes, public shaming works. It is how we got Mr. miller to pay some of his electricity bill and our Governor General to pay her property taxes.

The public accounts committee should hold public hearings into the Bamsi contracts, and any other ones for that matter. We as taxpayers deserve to know if these funds were disbursed erroneously to Mr. Hanna either through negligence on the part of civil servants or through coercing of them by our political leaders. Call all the relevant parties to testify under oath and let the chips fall where they may, a precedent must be set if we are to improve governance in this country that if you are negligent or crooked your dishonesty will be exposed and that there will be consequences. Furthermore, can the tribune publish the names of the civil servants who vetted and approved the disbursement of funds erroneously to Mr. Hanna, we as taxpayers who pay these civil servants salaries deserve to know as we are their employers. If the contracts were tabled in parliament this should be readily available.

Mr. Miller is quite the dichotomy, he both revolts and amuses in equal measure supporters and detractors to no end.

These people are LIARS. It takes 10 minutes to pull these files and see if there is a valid insurance certificate attached.

Please stop making ignorant, insular, antiquated, generalizations about ALL foreigners, this is not the 19 th century and educate yourself. The U.S. Is about 12 cents per kwhr. Have you heard of economies of scale??????? How can you compare a utility with a million customers to one with less than 20,000. It is simple economics. They have nuclear power in south Florida do you want that in the Bahamas? I thought not. As for guaranteed profits it is the best model. Utilities will not invest in such a capital intensive industry without an assurance of a return on their investment. Without it you will have what grand Bahama was before emera, an old declining inefficient plant starving for maintenance and capital.

Yes, managing it right into bankruptcy. Birdie should familiarize herself with the last actuarial review done on NIB. Based on current contributions and benefits expended the fund will be insolvent ( that is BROKE by 2028). Fully 22% of contributions are consumed by administrative costs, by far the highest in the Caribbean. Barbados is 5.2% and Trinidad 4.9%. So it is 400% more expensive to run, no wonder it is going broke! In short NIB is a wonderful idea, it has helped many people, but it is terribly bloated and inefficient and has been mismanaged by successive governments. And this is the govt that he wants to manage a massive health care program? Truth is these funds should be sacred and managed by an independent management team free from govt interference. Instead govts have used NIB as a slush fund to pay for all manner of expenditures that have nothing to do with pensions. We can not afford a national health program until our beauracracy becomes honest, and efficient and with as minimal govt interference as possible. The 40 year track record of NIB gives us

We would like it to be cheaper than 33 cents of course but given the limitations ( lack of economies of scale, added expense on an island Importing fuel etc) is it accurate to characterize it as a rip off ? I do not think so, there is a limit to how cheap electricity can be produced given our drawbacks. As for the customer paying for the plant, this was a win/ win situation. The new plant was more efficient so even with the addition of the 3 cents to cover costs, the overall cost to the consumer was still reduced compared to rates with the old plant. Also the new plant is more environmentally friendly which is a plus. The short is nothing is for free and this is a better banana than before, and probably the best given the circumstances. Also with the newer plant there were far fewer disruptions to power, this is an incontrovertible fact, leading to better service.

Tal I simply said reduce salaries to a reasonable level, not hard to figure out, just look at comparable wages at similar utilities. Hard to argue with that. As for the color of workers that has no bearing for me, I do not judge people by the color of their skin and see no reason why you introduced race. That has no bearing on running a corporation profitably. Finally, we all would like higher wages, we simply can not as a county afford a civil service that consumes 60 % of recurrent expenditure. It is untenable and unfair to taxpayers. We need to make sound and painful economic decisions before they are soon forced upon us by the IMF. The world have changed, we have to or will be made to against our will. Note for the first time ever Barbados fired 3000 civil servants last year, under pressure from the IMF. We will be there soon without changes.

It is much better than anything BEC has provided, or likely to anytime soon. The base rate is @ 20 cents per kWh, so currently total of just under 33 cents. 3 cents of the base rate is to pay for the construction of the new plant. When this is paid for the base rate will be reduced accordingly. It is not as cheap as we want but very good given the limitations of small economies of scale and with the soon introduction of natural gas will be better for the environment of grand Bahama.