Sorry but you are dead wrong. Government is the ONLY one to blame for BPL's woes. But I understand what you're saying. ;)
They put the wrong management in place, they give all contracts to one person and on top of all of that destructive behavior, they don't even pay their God Darn bills. Intentionally and knowingly crippling our economy. criminals!!!

Hold on... I thought Cooper was the PM. Who's this Davis fella?

We also need to remember that minimum wage is not necessarily aimed at working adults with children. The population getting minimum wage are usually those starting their careers (i.e. justo out of high school and some just out of college). It also helps young adults working in menial jobs hoping to build experience and helping fund a household with their parents and siblings.
Once you're in your middle-to-late twenties most of the population should have been working for a number of years already and have worked themselves up a level or two and minimum wage is comfortably behind them.
A person getting, or worried about getting, paid a minimum wage should not be a single parent trying to maintain a household. That situation should be extremely rare and should only happen through unfortunate circumstances (i.e. spouse died unexpectedly) or extreme stupidity.
In short... people getting minimum wage should be under 25 and living at home with their parents trying to save money and move up the corporate ladder.

you need to continue with your economics though... if you raise taxes, then wages soon follow suit. If you raise wages then prices soon follow suit. If you raise prices then inflation follows, and the circle continues.

Higher taxes can certainly start the ball rolling.

So to summarise:
- Management has been asleep for two years and have not done anything to bring costs down.
- Shell's monopoly is increasing the cost of electricity
- Management uses the most expensive-to-run generators all the time, instead of the more fuel efficient ones. One can only surmise that this is being done in order to generate as much revenue as possible for Shell - and to hell with the consumer.

To do:
- fire management... AGAIN.
- end the monopoly on fuel supply
- investigate management for any potential kickbacks received from Shell/FOCOL as something smells like sweaty, yeasty bread.
- review generator rental agreement for potential kickbacks as BPL always has them running for some reason (maybe other than 3rd party profit generation) maybe so that they need to be replaced/maintained more often so there's more money to be made by 3rd party.

Those guns are designed to kill plenty people at one time - not for protection of ones property. Whoever had these should be in jail for life and their bank accounts frozen and a thorough history of where they were when anyone got killed, over the last 10 years, reviewed.
No bail, no mercy.
And, if they don't give full details of where, when and from whom they purchased everything then hang the bitch! Enough already! Kill these animals before they kill us.

Only a fine???
I bet you Jamal McDonald driving around again without insurance and laughing everyday about how stupid our justice system is. He should be made to repair all damages and be remanded until those damages (in this case the boys teeth) have been fixed. His licence should also be revoked for 3 years.
What if he hits someone or something else without insurance again? Nothing but a stupid fine? Cheaper to take your chances not paying insurance since there is basically no downside.

Our country truly is run by morons at every level.

Impressive swim Lamar.

Thank you Lisa. This government is either of two minds or has zero minds between all the cabinet ministers.

This government and the churches sure don't care AT ALL about the women in our country. Beat them, rape them, PLP don't care, as long as the women working, cooking, cleaning and grin'in on demand, all good. We might as well call women here potcakes!!

And Jesus Clint, get a decent shave! Looking like a punk is for young gang-bangers. You're supposed to be a professional.