No, not so at all. There are plenty of effective guard rails that could be put in place to prevent this from happening. The professional operators of the highly successful Florida State Lottery long ago indicated a willingness to assist in that regard under a reasonable arrangement that would be mutually beneficial to both the State of Florida and The Bahamas.

Truth be told, the racketeering criminal thugs like Sebas Bastian and Craig Flowers need to be put out of business once and for all. Their illicit activities continue to place our entire domestic financial system at risk and they have greatly distorted both our foreign currency reserves and, like our corrupt government, the proper allocation of our country's scarce capital resources.

The PLP government should never have attempted to illegally 'legalize' the criminal gaming enterprises of these sleazy thugs against the wishes of the Bahamian people as was expressed in the outcome of a duly held national referendum many years ago when the very corrupt Vomit Christie was PM.

Their profit margins are actually controlled (fixed) by the supplier of their gasoline. The supplier (Snake) actually pays less in taxes per gallon of gasoline that he supplies to the gas retailers than the retailers pay to government on each gallon they pump at their retail station.

Keep in mind that Snake likely has a sweet deal (back-room arrangement) with Shell whereby the cost of every gallon of gasoline he purchases from Shell is inflated to reduce his own VAT and business license fees. In fact, some suspect the insatiably greedy Snake has a myriad of special arrangements with Shell that makes him one of the biggest private sector tax dodgers in our country. And let's not forget Snake's many decades of evading the full amount of property tax due on his real estate activities in Eleuthera, New Providence and Grand Bahama.

We're talking about an insatiably greedy Snake, not some cat. And it's the kind of Snake that will wrap itself around BPL and squeeze the life out of its customers (the pigeons) with outrageously high and unaffordable electricity rates of the kind never experienced in our country.

Well said.

And Pintard has yet to publicly announce that if he becomes PM his first order of business would be to completely undo what would be tantamount to an unconstitutional giveaway of our nation's energy sector to a cabal of marauders led by, of all the unethical business people, the insatiably greedy Snake.

Many financially struggling Bahamians would no longer be able to afford electricity because the greedy Snake and his cabal of marauders would greatly increase existing electricity rates to achieve the sustained windfall level of profitability they are now drooling at the prospect of entirely pocketing for themselves.

This most corrupt Davis led PLP government, which has thrown FOIA under the bus, is ascribing to itself power that it was never intended to have under our Constitution. Under the guise of Public-Private-Partnerships, our nation's vital state assets, important to our national security, are literally being given away for pennies on the dollar to cabal of marauders with no open bidding process or public hearings so that the people could weigh-in on this matter with their voice.

I would submit that this matter is of such national importance that it warrants, under our Constitution, the approval of the Bahamian people by way of a duly held national referendum, with assurances from the government that it will respect the outcome the referendum. Pintard should be demanding a national referendum.

What a loser!

The voice of yet another all but extinct dinosaur. LOL

Corrupt Vomit Christie and PM Davis will do their utmost to ensure their former very good friend Nygard is never required to face justice in any court in The Bahamas. If this ever happened, testimony from harmed individuals would make both Christie and Davis vulnerable to certain charges being made against them for acts of great indiscretion committed by them at some of the very wild parties hosted by Nygard at his Jungle House in Lyford Cay, not to mention Las Vegas.

I can only assume you have a vested interested in the evil and greedy Snake led cabal and his partners acquiring all the keys to the energy sector of our nation's economy for mere pennies on the dollar. No sane person without a financial stake in this ridiculous proposed plan for BPL would support it.

BPL/BEC has always had unions and should continue to have one no matter what. Your union bashing is, frankly, a red herring in this matter unless the PLP government has now decided it will to do away with all unions in our country. Your real beef should be with successive governments failing to ensure BPL has an adequate supply of well paid qualified Bahamian electrical and mechanical engineers. They are needed at both the management and staff levels and must be allowed to perform their jobs with minimal government interference at either the BPL board or union leadership levels.

Just ask yourself why has this corrupt Davis led PLP government not made any real effort to invite competing proposed solutions for review and consideration by a completely independent commission in open hearings televised to the Bahamian public.

In fact, I would submit such a proposed massive turnover of BPL's vital state owned assets to any private group should not occur without the prior consent of the Bahamian people in a duly held national referendum. I say this because of the serious implications this would have for our nation's economy and national security interests. The proposed PPP arrangement is farcical to say the least, because we know who will end up being in control, even if it means putting government in their pockets.

The financial pain the gasoline retailers are feeling is nothing compared to the financial pain that the very greedy Snake and his local and foreign cronies would inflict on the Bahamian people and their businesses if this planned theft of BPL's state owned assets is allowed. This most corrupt Davis led PLP government is criminally paving the way for the evil greedy Snake and his cronies to gain complete control over the generation and distribution of electricity in our country for decades to come.

A prominent businessman said he could not believe corrupt Davis has turned over to his buddy the greedy Snake, and his buddy's local and foreign cronies, the ability to decide what electricity rates should be charged to a customer or whether the customer should be subjected to power failures of the kind that lowers the value of their business or property to the point where it must be sold for mere pennies on dollar with the greedy Snake lying in wait as the purchaser.

Please get back on your meds.