Dear Mr Roberts, Frankly Wilson, JoeBeth Coleby Davis, Anthiny Ferguson and Brave Davis could have likely told you last year September exactly how much your August 2024 bill would be.

Because according to Mr Ferguson, he has seen "the plan". According to Mr Davis and JoeBeth Coleby Davis, the rate increase is in the plan. The 20 dollars savings and talks of bill reductions were decoys so that you wont realize that 1000 dollars was a planned tack on at the other end of the bill. The current national conversation is "*this astronomical bill must be a mistake*". Nope, they all knew.

These guys are complaining for nothing! Because *rates are down but usage us up*! Simply turn off the refrigerators for hours 25-30 of each day and theyll see the cost reduction that Brave Davis and Joebeth Coleby Davis promised

"*I’m just hoping that at some point it will decrease back to the level where it was. I think that is what they [the Government] are promising but I don’t know how long that will take. We always try to hold increases in expenses rather than passing them on but there’s only so much we can hold, only so much, and for so long.*

This is just utter insanity. People hoping and guessing when these promised savings will be seen. **Its now clear that the reason JoeBeth Coleby isnt providing any concrete details on this deal is because the goal is maximum profits for FOCOL and Pike and literally nothing else. Savings for consumers might be a happy coincidence if it ever happens. If the plan says 1 year but it takes 20, if noone knows who can be held accountable and any result, no matter how far off the mark, can be claimed a success**

We transferred 80M of 100M raised in capital to Pike, the **investor, who invested nothing**. This is **unheard** of. Nowhere in the world does an "investor" get such a huge payoff within 2 months of starting the business. #moneygrab #bailoutforoilbusiness. If you get paid for everything you do, you dont put up any capital, how are you an investor? And which govt signs a 25 contract to pay a vendor?

"*that his members had seen “quite a bit” of these deficiencies among firms with annual turnovers exceeding $5m and had made recommendations on how these could be remedied.*:

"*these are Bahamian ‘blue chip’ type companies, but you are going in and being surprised. Blue chips in the US, the systems should be good, the processes should be good, but we found for some of them not so much.”*

**Not surprised one bit**. We are heavy on "personality" and "Italian suits" in these leadership positions. **People love to tell you how "*they wasnt the smartest in school, but now they in charge*"**

**Well, this the result when you put people "*who een the smartest*" in strategic positions**. They just "*do whatever they **feel**"*. Overly inflated empty suits who refuse to listen to smart suggestions. This is the real virus destroying this country from the PM office on down.

**"*Even after we did the audit, further recommendations came out of it regarding the quality of the controls and quality of the processes they’re using. We’ve seen quite a bit of that.....*"**

**I dont know if we remember DAguilars statement, "*why we have to do all this planning? At my company we just do things*". I remember a few years ago suggesting to a senior executive at the tippy top of a "blue chip" organization that a process had to be structured for a given piece of work and receiving a response "*why we need a process?*"** I was shocked speechless.

The senior manager at customs profiled in the article 2 days ago is the personification of this.

"*Questions, meanwhile, were raised over whether the Government has deferred payments to vendors and other payables, as well as cut capital expenditure, to help meet its 2023-2024 deficit targets. These were based on the fact that payments for goods and services, as well as subsidies, fell in May due to what were described as “timing-related differences”*

Playing games

How so? The GB shelter was scheduled to be completed for 600,000 back in June and would house 300 people. 4.6 million? I recall the text messaging Marco's alert that offered features available by subscription for 500 dollars a month was contracted at about that price as well. It is inexplicable.

I've never heard of Mosko getting a contract for a building and the roof collapsing. Someone said to "*brace it better*". Isnt there a science to this? The width the length the height determine how much support it needs etc etc? No need to watch roof after roof collapse then say not a big deal it just needed stronger braces.

It is inexplicable. Something was wrong that had nothing to do with braces. If this were a fairy tale I'd say someone take the money and run and leave an unskilled incompetent to complete the 4.6 million job for 300,000 dollars. But this een a fairy tale so that couldnt happen.

"*the Ministry of Energy and Transport is in discussions with the US Embassy to have some security upgrades completed. I am advised that the upgrades should include perimeter fencing, installation of CCTV cameras, paving, erection of a security booth and an office space. These issues are important to the people of Abaco*

Which takes longer? a golden yolk chicken laying an egg or erecting a fence? Apparentlg erecting a fence takes 5 years.

At least this story didnt mash this up with import of japanese vehicles, because if my memory serves me correctly the govt put in place laws to prevent imports older than 10 years and introduced a very hefty TAX to cover inspection of every japanese vehicle imported to ensure its road worthy. If they have a problem it seems they should be investigating the inspection process.

The second thing they can do is eliminate the duty on new cars. That's easy. People wont purchase used cars if new cars are affordable

"*the Police Complaints Inspectorate, a little-known body that has traditionally lacked the resources to perform its duties, would supervise the SIB’s investigation.*"

Seems weird. They're doing everything possible not to have independent eyes on this thing. While no blood was found in a govt vehicle, lots of people around this have been murdered and there are some voice notes with possibly very incriminating evidence

"*the Government is profiting from the increase in bank fees, and suggested a portion of the revenue rise should be used to invest in entrepreneurs so they can expand their businesses.*"

I think that's a bad idea. I've noticed in the Bahamas that once a group is making money all ethical considerations go out the window. We've created this dangerous paradigm that where money is concerned all means are necessary, even murder for hire as a source of income apparently.

I saw a very nice picture of a "*mogul*" who's held up in society as a great success, theyre rubbing shoulders with the PM, giving financial contributions to MPs, beinh promoted in the political ranks, speaking to young kids about the path to success and I thought, what did they do other break the law and pass alot of ill gotten money around, likely laundering much of it to create a "legal" source of funds for bank deposits... what are we doing?

If you're going to reduce the burden on consumers by reducing extraneous banking fees, do that. Dont keep the fees as is then show that "good" is being done by giving a selected group gains off other people's pain.

Unbelievable. You cant hear one peep about the Andros, GB or Abaco oil spills. I dont bl ac me Mr Miller, he's not Minister of Environment qualified, I blame The PM who cl as ins Climate Change is his standard but he put the weakest soldier in the fight as the General