Hate to tell y'all this but BPL seems to be involved in some price gouging or money making scheme or at the least publicity, face saving stunt. Watch This: BPL is coming into certain areas and turning on residential consumers. Commercial and industrial consumers are left to battle with their generators, if they have one, but BPL is going public and saying these areas are up and running. So while 75% of New Providence "areas" may be up, less than 50% of consumers are on. Then when you complain they tell you you have to get a (a or an wat diffrnce) electrician before they can turn you on ( they mussy Viagra aye) Either this is a publicity gimmick or money making scheme! Stop it BPL. PzpL ( your customers )suffering

Now he does sound desperate. They juice you aye? Like they do Bahamians every day

While everyone is congratulating BTC as the model corporate citizen sponsoring this and sponsoring that, BTC has bankrupted more mom and pop stores and more independent vendors than any corporation in this country. BTC has these people selling their phone cards and top up for 5 or 6 cents on the dollar. They know it is impossible for anyone to survive on this margin, yet they continue to to do it. So they take the monies of hard working Bahamians and party with , spruce up with it and make their own selves look good when people who have been loyal to them go to bed hungry. pISS on BTC!!!

Anyone who supports the way BPL is handling the hurricane recovery is ignorant. Obviously there is an equipment shortage and this has hampered the process. It appears they at work as usual rather than acting in a state of emergency. They brought in no extra personnel because they have an equipment shortage.

Anyone who seeks to bring more separation and strife among the Bahamian people at this time is unwise. All political flags and rhetoric and other paraphernalia should put away at this time. There should be one United Bahamas focused on bringing recovery to those who have suffered tremendously as a result of Hurricane Mathew and every effort should be geared towards returning the country to normalcy.

While the insured property owners prepare to do battle with insurance companies there are hundreds of uninsured home owners who must now do battle with themselves and their pockets for not having insurance. The south end of New Providence is really devastated and one can imagine Andros and Grand Bahama. These are most likely the areas where people do not have insurance. And many of them in West End having just recently come out of storms were in the process of rebuilding.

Well my last comment on this: ride past any of De'Aguilars Superwash: those machines haven't stopped operating since before the storm. People have no electricity so his service is in great demand. Super Value's president claims his sales were up 80% just prior to and after the hurricane. Gas stations were selling out of fuel faster that they could replenish supplies. Same with ice and water. Now the shift will be to roofing supplies and building materials. Some business will make more in a month (or week) than they made in almost a year. This is spending that was not planned for. It is money people had to borrow, drain of their savings account or forgo the payment of other bills. So you will have some people who have become very wealthy because of the storm and others who have lost everything. Even the shirt of their backs. Economics says that some of that money now has to flow back in the opposite direction. That is the only way the economy can sustain itself. Then the new injections of capital in the economy have to benefit the 'have nots' more the ' haves' else it is useless. So if officials go about hoarding and stealing hurricane donations and supplies, they will make recovery even more difficult.

Do you know war was used as an economic tool and probably still is? When things got bad they would start a war, kill off a bunch of people and destroy a lot of stuff, then spend the next few years making babies and rebuilding.

So then what you should say is @the billion dollars injection into the Bahamian economy will not have the same effect it would have had, had there not been a natural disaster a/k/a hurricane Marhew, but there will be some economic benefits and stimulation, if only in the short and medium term." But instead you try to discredit my posting by calling me economically ignorant. Now you try to muddy the matter even more with your statistics and linear theory which basically are saying the same thing: for there to be some percentage reduction in the economic impact of hurricane recovery spending there has to first be some economic benefits. Tangible ones.

In fact you can go even further back to the times of Columbus and see hurricane and were a natural part of civil society. When Colombus lost two ships in a storm, he rebuilt and came back to "the new world ". Hence were are where we are today (socially and economically).