The question to ask is, why has the fuel charge increased when gas prices are going down?

"***Socially ethical profits refer to the idea that businesses can be both profitable and socially responsible**, generating financial gains while also contributing positively to society and the environment. This involves integrating ethical considerations into business models and decision-making processes, ensuring operations are conducted in a way that benefits stakeholders (employees, customers, communities, and the environment) rather than just maximizing shareholder wealth.*" google

You dont read.

**@Island Warrior is the first person I've heard whose identified the problem**. It's among the persons using in excess of 800kwh per month. This is why persons like you and PLP sycophants can call talk shows to say nothing has changed and their bill is lower. This is how they designed it. And yes, it's a socially ethical approach that lower income people should bear a lower burden of cost. But the reality of rising prices today, unless you're in the upper class and uber wealthy, simply having a higher salary doesnt unburden you from the weight of bills.

What isnt ethical is to gaslight higher income persons telling them to wash less clothes and read by candle light.

This is key in what Island Warrior described:
"*The fuel charge for usage over 800 kWh jumped by $46.80—from $75.61 in 2024 to $122.41 in 2025—despite only a slight decrease in the rate per kWh*

The fuel charge for usage over 800kwh was already higher than that for usage below 800kwh, so the more you used above 800kwh, your bill would appear to grow exponentially. That was the situation in July 2024.

**In July 2025 they increased the fuel charge rate for usage over 800kwh by 60%(?) and didnt notify anybody. They knew the rate had increased significantly, but continued with the line that "*bills have dropped*". This isnt "*gaslighting*", this is out and out deception. If spoken from the floor of the HOA, its a more serious charge**

And hence we have the reason that FOCOL Pike and the Govt agreed to a clause in the contract that they didnt have to get approval from URCA for rate changes in the first three years. They can change as they like without notifying anyone.

FOCOL btw declared an extraordinary 20mil net profit. They were extremely pleased.

"*Building on this solid financial foundation, the company’s strong Q2 2025 performance — with net income reaching $20.1 million at **mid-year** — positions FOCOL to **exceed last year’s earnings***"

**Anyone found to have moved money from a trust in their care should be legally barred from oversight of any third party fund for 50 years. That is how serious that offence is.** This is one of the biggest issues I have with high office seekers, when caught in these situations, they want to say "sorry" and immediately be given oversight over another large pot of money, the biggest of which is the public treasury. Wise men and women should strongly object.

"*One required him to hold $40,000 in trust for three years with annual interest payments and an option to invest the funds... Ms Rolle alleged that she never received the money owed to her under either agreement*"

"*Mr Bain denied the claims, ...His co-defendant, Keno Symonette, testified that he had forged Mr Bain’s signature at Ms Rolle’s request. However, the trial judge rejected their account and accepted Ms Rolle’s evidence.*"

I noticed the article references an "account" from Mr Bain and Mr Symonette as opposed to "evidence" from Ms Rolle. I wonder if that implies they just said "we paid her" but she brought hard copies akin to correspondences and bank accounts showing repeated inquiries for payment with promises to pay but no transfers. Would be good to know.

"*his clients are burdened by the “draconian” covenants placed on their properties decades ago that restrict them to just single-family residential development, and would like them lifted to increase their land values and have the ability to consider future commercial ventures*"

You are correct, in 20 years you will have a liquor store next door. Our poor country, starved of resources for decades our people will sell their souls for a dollar.What is happening at junkanoo beach, Goodman's bay, carmichael road, every island ... we'll have shanty buildings everywhere

Or proofreaders...

There are a number of errors, but to be fair to Mr Stubbs his value is in his sports knowledge. There are likely only a few people who could rival him on that. The grammatical and content review is really the domain of the editor (or assistant editors, I believe?). Then that opens another rabbit hole, can one editor realistically review every single article on a daily newspaper in a small population where the readership really doesnt provide adequate revenue for staffing...

You noticed.

"Sounds" like the family is being extorted. Never heard of police/authorities charging to remove a dead body from water

"*Thompson said he was “fully aware” of Norman’s Cay planned downsizing having been informed of it early last week.*"

Odd definition of "*fully*".

"*Mr Thompson said when calls are made to the impacted persons, he will further inquire about the allegations of police presence and the short period of time provided for persons to gather their belongings.*"

So... nobody who was "*fully*" informed and responsible for ethical treatment of workers asked how the staff would be offboarded?

"*Chef Osoria said he holds no ill-will towards the developer of Norman’s Cay nor are his comments “rooted in anger. It is **particularly disheartening to witness fellow Bahamians, entrusted with positions of authority, seemingly complicit in actions that disenfranchise their own people**. The recent mass lay-off under the purported leadership of the current island manager, a Bahamian national, exemplifies this troubling dynamic,” he added.*"

It's another odd phenomenon, enslavers often use people of like kind to dish out punishment to victims. The punisher is either disdainful of their own kind for not having the "whatever" to ascend to their level of achievement or is too afraid to fall into victimhood and is all to willing to dish out the abuse. We see this often in Parliament.."*if I'd said something I would have lost my own job*"...so let the people drink Rubis oil for one year or more and die of cancer.

Because"

"*the resulting fee uncertainty has lingered “for months’.*"

Apparently this gentleman and his local contact have been going back and forth to officials trying to get an answer, and after months, he could not get confirmation that the 150 outbound was only for private planes. It was only after he contacted the Tribune that a definitive statement was issued.

Seems like he was caught up in another shortsighted policy change vortex. The poor officer who's now blamed for having "incorrect information"