Unfortunately Foreigners can hire a Fred and get results far faster than any regular Bahamian with or without a Fred.
Far easier to beg forgiveness than ask permission. Increasing the level of non functioning Bureaucracy drives your diminishing economy underground creating the perfect vicious cycle.
Seems Government is unable to discern the difference between "strangulation" and Rules based regulation.

Go Gettum Clarence, Always a straight shooter by all appearances.

Wait until you cannot even buy power, never mind the rate!
Generation will no doubt fail long before any actionable occurs,
The rate at which we crumble our infrastructure increases daily,
in proportion with the amplitude of the self appointed
finger pointing committee members.

The shifting sands of Government/BEC/BPL/works/URCA"policy" on Solar is ridiculous,
and the #1 barrier to widespread adoption.
Probably easier to put up panels on the West Bank or Gaza Strip!
Certain aspects of the policy are already obsolete in any case given the re-direction of the industry in the first world. They are still trying to figure out how to "control" Alt energy from 10 years ago.

I really wish we could hang these successive politicians "Legacies" around their necks.

And the above while agreed, assumes the Cruise lines themselves won't mind giving up some of their "captive dollars"

While I agree with 100% solar it will take a complete economic shift/Government turn around/ bank attitude change to accomplish even in 30 years.
LNG has been proposed for east and west GB, Ocean Cay because of land availability, which is scarce on the eastern seaboard of the U.S.
Strategic location. None of those proposals were to supply locally. They were all pipelines to the U.S. demand/market.
This one is all about a new market for LNG, the Bahamas.
It only makes sense for the Bahamas as we have no other plan.
It is a short term solution at best.
Whether we bleed foreign reserves for oil or gas makes no difference.

Must be Starbucks withdrawal, he is delusional.
So where does "government mandated" price reduction stop?
Food store?private School fees? Paper boys?
Dr. Chavez has risen! Long live the Bolivian B.S !
What does "massively expanded market" mean?
You really think the insurers, Doctors, health facilities can put aside all the bill padding and discount taking at the consumers expense and agree to take a hit to the bottom line?

In liquid form it is very cold and stable, and kept that way very easily.
No, LNG will not go kaboom if not cooled, it will re-gasify slowly which is what they control to provide the gaseous form for consumption.
Natural gas is lighter than air, therefore any leaking gas will rise, not pool in low areas like gasoline fumes do.
Of course Shell is interested in profits, and new markets for their products,
who wouldn't be. unless you believe the tripe Government has been selling us for 50 years.

What he is saying, without saying it, is we cannot carve these areas out as the Government has already breached them!
Mr. Laing is the guy who likes to keep secrets, from the people whom he is supposed to be working for.