Is there anyone who can save us from this incompetent moron? Mr. miller your excuse sounds like a little child telling their teacher that the dog ate their homework. Please grow up there are 5000 homes in this country without electricity because it costs too much. We are tired of excuses, my bill is sky high yet oil has fallen 25% in the last 4 months. So this fuel charge really is a sham, my surcharge has been increasing not decreasing! Get someone to run the company who can stand up for us, demand accurate fuel bills from shell or go to another supplier. We are tired of your pathetic excuses. Give us accurate lower bills or resign.

I for one forgive him, now let us move on together and address these serious issues afflicting our beloved nation.

I am sorry but I hardly believe a word that comes from our commissioner, he has lost almost all credibility, and as such should just resign. He is a decent man but it is time to move on to someone we can trust.

Ms. Butler can try to spin this but NIB has been grossly negligent with extremely excessive administrative expenses. From the ninth actuarial review of NIB:

The report noted that NIB’s administrative costs in 2011 stood at 21.6 per cent of contribution income, a ratio far in excess of similar schemes in the Caribbean and developed world, and which had been driven by “overstaffing” and “relatively high salaries” paid to staff.

#Barbados and Trinidad & Tobago ran social security systems where administrative costs, as a percentage of contributions, were 5.2 per cent and 4.9 per cent, respectively - more than four times’ less than NIB’s ratio.

Shortly, contribution rates will be increased again to compensate for this corruption. Stop wasting our pension contributions!

Ironically Mr. Davis was also referring to himself without the intelligence to realize it. How about you playing an active role, i.e. Doing your job and fire this deadbeat Mr. Davis!

I believe it is law that a meter must be on the outside of a building so it is readily accessible to B.E.C. If so then Ms. Thompson is clearly at fault and should be fined and ordered to move her meter like everyone else. At the least stop complaining when we finally have people trying to do their job made more difficult because of her actions.

Politics is a dirty business, and what goes around comes around. LBT apparently has been overtly and covertly undermining Mr. Minnis leadership and that situation is untenable. He needs to remove this dissension from the party and have unified leadership. The country can not afford another term from this inept, corrupt government. Our problems are too real and dire. Unfortunately our only real options are terrible govt from the fnm or really terrible govt from the plp.

If her bill was paid there is no reason for B.E.C to use any method to disconnect her. Stop blaming other people and take some personal responsibility. On a related matter, would the tribune regularly ask Mr. Miller about the status of his arrears. I mean they seem to interview him regularly, it should be the first question each time. I am a tax payer and his boss, and I deserve to know whether his bills are being paid. Also I pay in full on time each month so I am subsidizing his account and needlessly paying more for his inability to live within his means.

I agree with you wholeheartedly on our people not being fiscally prudent. You are speaking to the choir, I have lived my entire life debt free and was able to retire at 43 by being fiscally prudent, so it goes against my fiber to subsidize other people's wastefulness. Nonetheless, we can not expect to have a proper functioning society if 6% of our society lives without electricity. This small level of welfare will more than pay for itself in reduced social ills. Of course it should be accompanied by privatizing B.E.C., which if done properly will improve efficiency that would more than cover the subsidy of 100 kWh or $40 to each home.

Of course it will be paid for by higher rates on those that consume more electricity, who are the people who can most afford it. I am in that category, I do not want to pay higher rates but to have this many homes disconnected is simply unacceptable, and putting people on payment plans can not work when they can not pay their bills in the first place. Think of all the social ills a lack of electricity leads to. Children from disadvantaged homes can scarcely be expected to function properly without electricity in modern society. We will be subsidizing the poor but it will lead hopefully to he alleviating of some social ills that a lack of electricity leads to. On ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure ad we must find ways to prevent social ills before they occur. I hate increased taxes as much as anyone but Taxes are the prices we pay to live in a civil society.