Mr Glinton is correct, however so much has gone by the wayside in this country with respect of the HCA and the Laws of the country it is no surprise the Government is proceeding the way it is.
Operating by precedent rather than rule of law, is a guaranteed method for repeating ever increasing folly.
This, as in all else that has gone before will not end well.

I have no doubt the Trust is challenged financially, as are all NGO's, increased taxation bites charities first.
Public private partnerships can work, but transparency and the outright understanding that all improvements and service agreements are for public use.
We Bahamians put natural resource stewardship so high on our list of priorities........
The BNT is also one area that the Government aught to fund properly, for all Bahamians.

Would be interesting to be able to compare each Caribbean island/country's deal with the cruise lines.
I'd be willing to bet we give away more, but i'm sure all islands do to some extent.
These cruise ship private cays do nothing more but make those communities dependent on a cruise line, which works them for pittance pay, long hours and no benefits. I'd be surprised if they follow Bahamian labor laws.

Now if we all got together and changed the game..........
They'd have too many ships and nowhere to go.

I agree Dagoobs, as a regulator URCA is standing by while Political and BPL special interests bury Alt energy under a myriad of excuses and reasons it can't be allowed to happen or won't work.
"They have been weighed, They have been measured, and they have been found wanting"
Yet another form of economic blackmail the citizens and businesses suffer under, while the select few preserve themselves and bleed the country dry of foreign reserves to pay for fuel oil.

Ragged island could have been the Bahamas showpiece in the 100 island Challenge as signed onto by the Bahamas, as part of the Carbon war room efforts of R.Branson.
Opportunity squandered as always.
Would have payed massive dividends in Triggering Alt energy development IF coupled with a decent National Alt Energy policy. Instead we allow BEC/BPL to bicker and stall, delay and pilfer while we all sit in Darkness.
Ludicrous.

I agree, absolute garbage and self service by BEC/BPL and all the engineers/supporting fuel oil suppliers/engine parts suppliers etc. They need to get the hell out of the way and let the electrical code govern along with a "please do it"policy.
The Carbon War Room and 100 Island challenge membership is a joke.
The fact that we do't even have solar hot water heaters as the norm indicates the complete vacuous lip service that has become the joke of the Caribbean.
The real Question is, where is the regulator? Why is URCA not leading and creating the standards ? Or is URCA akin to Local Govt?I know experts who have spoon fed 3 Prior Administrations minsters for BEC/Energy/Solar and nothing substantive from any of them, save more delay and confusion.
Phil is correct, at this rate we will not appear on the global Alt energy map until 2200!
I wonder how solar works underwater?

While I feel for the People who live there, or used to, and have experienced the devastation personally no less than 4 times,
I will say that successive Government have set Bahamians up to expect handouts and Government rescue. I've watched the political pecking order destroy honest decent humanitarian effort, I've seen NEMA warehouses receiving materials that never leave aside for personal political use. I've watched hurricane supplies and Generators resold and money pocketed.
Who's Money will the government give? With what expertise or hope it will be used appropriately? As to the mail complaint, the whole country waiting for mail!
All of the Out Islands are dying, as they pull more people to Nassau, apparently with the aim of sinking it!
The last entity I would expect or want help from is Government!
The real problem is zero economy. Instead of a half dozen B&B or fishing lodges, we have massive resorts in Nassau! We have sizable resorts in G.B. closed!
We are left with a legacy of incompetence and foolish mindsets created to control.
Insanity.
Again, to lose ones home is horrible, to see ones island laid to waste equally so,
but griping to the biggest problem the country has for more is ludicrous!
And where are these $4000 payouts coming from? The Consolidated Fund? VAT income?
Donated Funds? Can we have an accounting? Seems the other day the Government abandoned their feeble attempt at an audit trail for rebuilding materials by just handing out money, and not just in Ragged Island.

Pure spoon fed Garbage Birdie, but you eat/ believe what you want.
Income from Retail ranking is overseas suppliers, Government (licenses, duty, VAT taxes)
payroll, Power co, phone co, Insurances and repairs and renewals.
Now if you don't pay the above and fill your pockets from the till......
but they don't last long.

A white paper was written for the Government after Francis and Jean, Ignored like most
input by Bahamians. Would have cost them nothing.
You just can't make this stuff up.
Foreign Companies who have offered money/materials/relief supplies run into the U.S. Foreign Corrupt practices act.

On a point of order, the "gates" between Freeport and EMR were a Bahamas Customs checkpoint, to control all the duty free materials flowing into Freeport, which were found flowing out to the western settlements. I love how this fallacy perpetuates itself.
Ingraham (and Christie for that matter) couldn't think past lunch, hence the hotel renovated and opened was the deal tied into the Airport/Container port, no promise to run it forever, or at all. It has always been a money sink made worse with no casino to speak of.
Same was true for Princess who created their own Gambling Junkets, self generated revenue/support, via Freddy Laker and the operator before (or was it after?)
Meanwhile the Absent Insurance Report is most telling, it may well show there was structural damage. Hope that deposit is refundable!