"*gave BTC away*"

Assuming you're correct can you tell me how much was BTC sold for and what percentage shares govt received and how much was BEC sold for and what percentage shares did govt receive?

The most shocking thing to me was hearing a spokesperson for Climate Change speak so enthusiastically about what Climate Change was and its impact but literally clueless about current natural assets and any threat to them. Then closing the appearance as a cheerleader announcing Brave Davis had another speaking engagement.

**I honestly do not under Brave Davis. *Theoreticatlly* he knows protecting the environment is important but Our environment is being destroyed right in front of him and he's just pronouncing words.**

"***Lightbourne acknowledged deforestation is a common aspect of development but emphasised the need to balance development with environmental protection***"

**Please Mr Lightbourne give us a report on this "balance", island by island with maps**. How much forest wetlands beaches and hills are left and will remain undisturbed? How much of it will be free of mega development and available to the Bahamian public for eco exploration? And how much has been destroyed like Esau in the last ten years for a bowl of porridge? Please tell us.

As I read the article my first thought was, did they put out this information before? Maybe they did, but I didnt read the article, I certainly havent heard anyone speak on these details, even Zhivargo Laing who is very meticulous about things such as this. So to say they are disappointed with the knee jerk reaction... I dont know what other reaction anyone faced with a 6% increase on already exorbitant bills with no information other than there'll be an increase would have.

For GBs sake I hope what theyve projected is in fact what will happen. The projections are backed by a hedge strategy meaning theyll be able to predict fuel costs, they cant predict sales or disasters.

BEC on the other hand is covering up everything because they dont want to be graded. Including who this mysterious Island Power is. I see the Tribunes article speaking of performing internet searches, did the same last week and could find nothing on this company. For our sake I hope it's not FOCOL and Pike or some other friend of the administration who hobbled some white faces together.

"*Are they the same as Bahamas Grid Company*"

This is my big question.

Dramatically very very bad sign, since the failure of the first milestone of the plan, *end of load shedding with introduction of two new generators*, theyve not told us any other milestones. This means they dont trust the plan because plans for our infrastructure, under a 25 year contract, are not a secret

I've noted that their plan has already been proven to be way off the mark.

Why do I say that? Brave Davis gave a speech from Parliament where he spoke about the end of load shedding and lower Bill's by July. In addition to that he created an entire marketing campaign with well produced videos of him being the energy super hero. This was a done deal... in his mind.

This means somebody, convinced him this would be the case. This convincing happened from as far back as last year. The July end of load shedding date also coincided with the arrival of two new generator purchased by FOCOL.

That part is important. The two new generators were likely thought to be **the** solution or at minimum a major part of the solution. Because no politician would speak about having solved electricity with major outages still being the norm.

And if the new generators were the solution Its failed. Theyve under analyzed the problem and sold a dream to cabinet. But it's only bad news for us, because no matter how much it costs to earn a profit they have the right to charge that price for three years. They will not lose and PM Davis will be out of office earning his dividends.

In a weird turn of events, Minnis also thought new generators was the solution. That also failed. Drammatically.

All the king's horses and all the king's men?

Maybe they were tourists, heard the Obeah Mans song and were looking for "Cat Island woman". Or... maybe not...

You're right! I apologize to said lady who who was *minding her own business*

Exuma is getting massive attention under DPM Chester Cooper, likewise Cat Island is receiving attention under PM Brave Davis and this is part of the problem. Its unclear how much remains undone outside of *golden goose* areas of those constituencies

**The people in power, with power, direct all resources to their constituency while robbing constituencies of internal party rivals and opposition members of basic infrastructure upgrades. It leads to decades long cycles of stalled projects and collapsing infrastructure**.

**This is what we are witnessing year after year, the effects of simple "politically authorized neglect"**