I see them collecting money along the roadside on weekends. And I always wonder what sort of accounting goes into that given that Mr Bain was found squatting in a house out Cable Beach. (Open question on how he gained access to the house) But if he's destitute and people are willing to give him money no questions asked... its their money to give and he should be able to eat. I suppose it would be difficult for him to find employmemt

The issue clearly isnt what Warsilla is dumb enough to do, but what an administration under electorate pressure will order to be done despite all good evidence to the contrary.

I for one believe they would install 95m dollar engines on a foundation they knew had issues on a hope and a prayer that identified risks would never come to fruition. 2020 was a campaign year

Completely unrelated to shanty town issue. But **I hear this narrative that persons speaking out about known issues at BPL must have some hidden agenda because Warsilla couldnt have been dumb enough to install engines at an unsuitable location**

**My immediate thought was** the persons pushing this line of reasoning cant have lived here for more than a day and do not realize that **in this country politics overrides common sense, good governance and sometimes the law.**

Here is an extract from a **February 2020** BPL/Warsilla Tribune story

*BPL race to fix new plant issue: Minister orders firm it must resolve cooling problem with engines*

*Bahamas Power & Light is racing against time to have its new $95m electricity plant ready to meet peak summer demand after plans for its cooling system literally hit the rocks.*

***Tribune Business can reveal that the state-owned utility’s scheme to cool the 132 mega watts of newly-installed generation capacity by digging four 800-foot deep wells at Clifton Pier is in danger of running aground because the area’s rock structures have proven far more difficult to penetrate than first thought.***

*BPL has so far managed to reach just over 50 percent of the target depth on two of the four wells and, with summer’s peak demand just three-and-a-half months away, it has ordered an alternative radiator system as a back-up in case the original strategy fails.*

*Several drill bits have already been broken in efforts to reach the required well depth, this newspaper has confirmed, with sources suggesting that only two of the seven Wartsila-supplied engines which comprise BPL’s new generation capacity are currently online and being used amid the wait for a cooling solution.*

***Tribune Business also understands that BPL management was advised against the well cooling solution by Wartsila, which URGED the state-owned utility to instead purchase a closed radiator system, but executives decided to press ahead despite the supplier’s recommendation. The drilling woes, though, have finally forced them to alter course.**

*And, besides the challenges in penetrating the rock, this newspaper was also told that decades of oil spills and other BPL-related pollution at Clifton Pier means that the water pulled up by the wells to-date us unusable because it contains multiple forms of waste and harmful chemicals.*

*Desmond Bannister, minister of works, confirmed....*

Not speaking to any case details, but did the police give a statement? In a criminal matter isnt it odd that the first statement comes from the PM??? And everywhere else is crickets?unless I missed the statement from law enforcement also very *banana republickish* where political pressures rule law enforcement. All of this 2 whole weeks after the signal would have been given that there was indeed a legal case to answer.

The support from the Jamaica based customer service reps is remarkable. Pockets of the Bahamian staff on the other hand can be very dismissive, deceptive and passively aggressive. It's not every instance but one or two is sufficient to tarnish everybody. Poor service is a very very very common finding across the local service sector, multiple industries, even the hotels where workers receive the most intensive service training, its not only BTC. Rather than sticking their head in the sand, the union would do better to have an ongoing monitoring program for staff performance and proactively address these issues across departments before the company announces outsourcing initiatives

It's apparently less than 100k per year to support a GG (who serves for 5 years or less) for the rest of their life. A new car for every senior official every 5 years is less than 40k each?. What's the fuss? No need to be concerned, nothing to see. Wartsila engines in a building that's about to collapse? I wonder how much it would have cost to build a proper foundation? Nothing to see...

They had the same long wait with the first companies they listed as well. I dont find the time by itself unusual. If there was something to find Im thinking it would have come out in the court case

"*in a battle for control of the crowdfunding platform.*"

I wonder what the dispute was about, but the fact that a financier is willing to battle in court says they see value in the platform. They do need to address some issues with education, they made a statement some time ago that they had issues collecting all the money pledged. I hear too many companies pitching investment like snake oil. (not that they did that) It's not for everybody

Ridiculous. They feed us this bait to fight over who we should send to eat at the table next. Meanwhile people using outdoor toilets and paying 1000 dollar electricity bills.This smacks of the same elitism as Sebas landing at the sports center to a crowd of cheering broke people, minimum wage bahamian oohing and ahhing at who was best dressed at the 50th balls while they on the outside peeping through the slots in the fence. Ridiculous. In 2 years we get to fight over the next highly favored.

When will Cornish be charged?

In the irony of ironies I was speaking with someone overseas months ago about an activity I was involved in, they asked me is it "*safe*", my response was "*nowhere in this country is safe*. Crime is an equal opportunity offender, transformed by the lockdowns, its now a 24hr anywhere anytime business. We are in our own guerilla warfare