99% of Bahamians committed to a healthy lifestyle. This should work well for us.

Lol @ "*monitoring*". They seem to like to do that. Like the Minister of the Environment "*watching*" for weeks on end to see if someone would stop the oil leak into the ocean as in Abaco. Maybe there's a course for MPs in "*watching and doing nothing*"

"*or, is there a much deeper social explanation for our unarguable failure as a nation?*"

Theres as deeper social issue.

A very large percentage of the Bahamian population see nothing wrong with engaging in illegal activity if you can make a profit. If the US were to release the tapes I'm sure we'd find a good percentage of businesses and the *forward* advancement of individuals was funded by the 80's drug era. Then came illegal gaming with these men allowed to not only hold on to the proceeds to crime but to ascend to high office, some representing the Bahamas. Then we get the politician accepting rolex watches as gifts, and demanding 5000 dollars or more from contractors for every low cost home contract awarded. You cant make this up. We simply cannot distinguish between good and bad if money is involved. Look at FTX I'm "almost" sure Brave would have sold New Providence and everybody's first grandchild into slavery if Sam had asked him to. Something was also up with Oban, Minnis was acting like a crazy person trying to pull that over the finish line by himself, you'd almost think he was poised to make millions if it went through.

Bahamians call these people "*smart*". And the 17 year old boys in the inner city (or wherever they are) with automatic rifles, killing people and robbing banks want to be just like them. Rich fast.

That's why we're failing.

That's Niel Hartnells research I just tapped a few keys. I see the "*new solution*" is two new engines purchased by possibly Sun Oil/Focol.... Until they start failing too

"*XReg was tasked with coming up with options for a new home, and one of the search criteria was to find jurisdictions that “offered lax regulation of crypto currency”.*

That's interesting and laughable. It literally belies everything the PM said. They were shopping around for a country with lax crypto laws and they found the Bahamas to set up their playground. How stupid does that make us look talking about the ironclad DARE act being in place.

"*Sullivan & Cromwell found that those NFT transactions were part of a scheme whereby FTX com users, who could not withdraw funds from the exchange after FTX.com froze withdrawals, paid inflated prices for NFTs sold by Bahamian individuals.*"

Wow. Seems like outright fraud. Artificially Inflating prices of assets to withdraw money which should have been frozen. And if I remember correctly the relaxation was called for by the PM who must have known that when an organization is in financial trouble noone can arbitrarily decide on a group of creditors to get paid out first. Theres an orderly process. He knows this.

You're projecting. Because the speculation is the PLP is funding Minnis to cause disruption in the FNM

"*He linked the excess heat to the negative impact of climate change.*"

Brave Davis literally just says anything that pops in his mind

**February 2020 Neil Hartnell -**

*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.*

*The situation is likely to both alarm and infuriate BPL’s long-suffering residential and business customers on New Providence, as it will raise fears of a repeat of summer 2019 when virtually all parts of the island were subject to daily load shedding and blackouts often lasting a minimum three hours due to the utility’s aged and poorly-maintained generation capacity being unable to meet demand.*

*Desmond Bannister, minister of works, confirmed the potential dilemma facing BPL when contacted by Tribune Business after this newspaper’s contacts alerted it to the situation at Clifton Pier. He admitted that “everything has to be in place” on the cooling system by May so that the new plant is fully operational in time to meet the peak summer electricity demand that kicks-in come June.*

*The minister, who has responsibility for BPL, said the state-owned utility monopoly was “fully confident” that a cooling solution will be place before summer 2020. He hinted, though, at differences over what that solution should be by saying he preferred the radiator solution to the wells that management was focused on...*

"*“We have been working assiduously over the last year, two years and a half to find a solution to the aging infrastructure of BPL.*"

I dont believe it.

"*We should have a solution*"

I dont believe it.

"*that we’ll be announcing within the next two weeks or so that no doubt will bring what every Bahamian wants at the end of the day, affordable electricity, reliable electricity, and of course, sustainable electricity.”*

I dont believe it.

As long as we have the party system we have, failing govt infrastructure will be used forever to hand overpriced contracts to cronies. Has the auditor general started the audit of technology contracts and equipment/computer purchases at the ministry of finance? Has he started the investigation into the 25m air cargo contract? Technology is the easiest fraud mechanism because techy words and phrases confuse the public, which is the goal.

"*contributing factor to BPL’s power engines’ malfunction was that the engines overheated.

"*He linked the excess heat to the negative impact of climate change.*"

Respectfully, **the PM often makes the most unbelievable statements in reference to climate change**. Where's his data? Have engines overheated at any time in the last 50 years? What was the load on the entire system? What was the capacity of the generator(s) that overheated? What was the atmospheric temperature? Please give us something to show you're not just saying non-sense.

I sometimes fluctuate between thinking birdie is an intelligent person hiding their identity under a facade of pure unadulterated dumbness to being horrified that these statements could be pure creations of a birdie brain

I think Bran sees DPM as his way in. I dont see him playing second fiddle for long... but... I could be wrong.