The fact is BPL seems to have brought in foreign help and the trucks as an afterthought. It appears they were approaching the BEC restoration and recovery in a "business as usual mode." Only after they realized the extent of the damage and the intolerance of the Bahamian consumer did they decide to holler for help. So when the men and trucks arrived a large bulk of the repairs were completed. Since they are here hopefully they will ship some of them to Andros and get the victims over there back up and running.

Until and unless there is fiscal prudence and accountability, the Bahamas will continue to face financial perils and including excessive borrowing and budget shortfalls. Case in point: during the 1980's and early 1990's the Bahamas had booming economies. In fact the legitimate economy was so supported and sustained by the underlying drug and human trafficking subcultures that even when a recession passed over the economy it barely impacted a Bahamians' way of life and standard of living. In fact, for most people, a depression in the economy only reduced the amount of money that person could save. Likewise with the Bahamian government. Despite the extra millions of dollars it drew in from the sub economies, The government continued to borrow money and to splurge money like two drunken sailors. And while there were a few people who sounded the alarm, even constantly, and warned that borrowing was growing out of control and tough economic times may be ahead, no one paid them any mind. Money was flowing all around and borrowing was easy and cheap. So the government continue to squander and throw away the people's money and "getting value for tax payer dollar' was a foreign language. One that was never understood, even in the least. And so now the liquidity has dried up. Tax dollars are harder to come by, borrowing is more expensive and more difficult and rather than have reserves or at least a paid down national debt, government is up to its ears in borrowing. Some say over da edge (over leveraged). And one of the few options it has available to it is to tax the Bahamian even more. Despite increasing and/or enforcing old taxes, new taxes have been introduced. But this did not quench the government's insatiable thirst for more money. More tax dollars. Poor bahamians!

Most people are just happy to have their lights back on, regardless of how long it took. For many reasons including the fear of crime and for safety and comfort. Speed needs to be used now in getting some critical traffic lights back up and running.

It appears as if a new dose of anger and violence have been poured on young Bahamian men. When three grown men would go and assasinate another man in front of five young children. Not only injuring them but scaring them mentally for the rest of their lives. And to hear that the apparent motive for the slaughtering was not even confirmed. Just to witness some of the anger displayed in road rage over the two weeks after the hurricane. It seems some people would rather kill or injure people who don't give up their right of way or even rights otherwise.

The government got a 'by' when it went ahead and regularized and licensed web shops against the will and wishes of the Bahamian people. The jury is still out on whether this was a good idea or not, but what this Bahamian government must not do is immerse its hands deeper into the acts of gambling. It should now satisfy itself with the revenue it gets from the web shops and not be swayed to dirty his hands even more.

Perry Christie is only trying to cover his ASSets. He has more riding on Election 2017 than any other Bahamian inside or outside the Bahamas. Adding Lightburne and Chipman to his team increases his chances of being prime minister for another five years. Giving him time to do whatever he feels he needs to do to 'fix his legacy' and not go out as the most fumbling and bumbling prime minister in the history of the Bahamas. The prime minister who administered over the most corrupt government in the modern history of the Bahamas. Bah Mar is still there as testament. Among other things. in the the main time Minnis is as lost as a jay bird in the snow. A Bahamian in Minnesota in a snow storm. He is still cuttingcomrades legs off at the knees. Rather than rallying the troops and getting them battle ready for election he is still cutting them off at the knee. And making babbling publicly. To the point that even die hard FNM's and questioning his ability to lead, especially into an election.

Seven months without a fire and many fingers and toes were crossed daily to hope one did not occur. That could be the worst of the worst with all the hurricane debris piled up not. One can understand the apparent faustration with the situation at the dump. The act to trying to take an open "all access" property and securing it. Then taking a disorganized landfill and turning it in to a profitable, revenue generating, recycling and energy generating facility. So who dropped the ball 🏀 and which is the way forward. Do they go to the second most qualified bid. Does the bidding process start all over or does the government sit and try to resolve the differences with Renew.

When three grown males, armed to the 'T' are willing to sacrifice injuring or even killing five young children to get at a target they want dead, this is testimony to the seriousness of the crime problem we face in this country. A matter of "by any means necessary ". And it is a heartless, cold blooded act. This is not the Bahamas that our forefathers envisioned. It is now the country many of us grew up in. Murder and mayhem has become the order of the day for some people and too bad for you if you happen to be in their way. They showed no mercy and no compassion. Hope the courts do likewise when the time comes.

When the dust from the hurricane has cleared, government must seek to remedy the traffic situation at Marathon Mall when the power is out. Either there needs to be a back -up generator in place or solar back up. The intersection is just to wide and too busy for the traffic to be unmanaged. Tempers flare,road rage kicks in and lives are threatened both by the undirected traffic and persons who lose their tempers and get physically violent. A similar situation has developed at the Southwest Plaza where it intersects with the Super Value/ KFC Shopping Center. This is now virtually an 11 lane intersection with traffic having the ability to flow in 12 different directions. It is difficult during regular times and days leading up to the storm and even now it is almost. Again road rage kicks in, tempers flare and lives are being threatened. Persons are being followed by angry motorists and threatened with physical bodily harm. Another hotspot on Carmichael is the area heading West from Faith Avenue and beyond the Chinese food store. Because there is always a line of traffic heading East persons in the lane heading West cannot easily navigate a turn into the parking lot. It is not also easy to exit the parking lot and again this leads to drivers hostility. In fact the entire Carmichael corridor from Blue Hills to Coral Harbour needs to be revamped. The area is growing rapidly and sometimes it's even scary to be caught in that area in heavy traffic. Provisions were made so the road can be expanded into a dual carriage way. The government should seriously look at doing this after the storm because of the amount of road rage that happens on that road.

Nothing like having lights on all around you and yours still off. You call BPL and after calling back a dozen times a half live body answers and say they are aware of the problem. But they can't tell you what the problem is or when it will be fixed. They ain't serious.