20,000 people on government related/connected payroll times $1,400 per employee equates to $28 million ($28,000,000).

And Robin Hood Minnis thinks to himself: "Dis my way of makin' sure da few wealthier Peters a/k/a da 'Haves' give to my many poorer Pauls a/k/a da 'Have Nots' dis Festive Holiday Season. But come da New Year, both da Peters and da Pauls gonna hav' ta pay for ma generosity wit some serious new taxes."

Desmond Bannister was absent from the photo op because he had only just found out that it is his responsibility as Minister of Works to ensure BPL has obtained adequate insurance coverage for all of this very costly new equipment. He's still got his people searching around for full details of the insurance arrangements.

Meanwhile Donovan Moxey and Whitney Heastie are still scatching their heads wondering why BPL's insurers had made such extensive enquiries about whether the building housing the new equipment has been constructed and certified to withstand sustained hurricane force winds up to 225 mph, and whether a fire sprinkler/suppression system has been installed. It seems Bannister and BPL's board may have been unaware that the insurance premium costs could have been significantly reduced by these risk mitigating measures. But then again, higher insurance premium costs mean higher commissions for the local insurance agent involved and many of us can't help but wonder which local insurance broker/agent issued the juicy insurance policy.

In the photo at the top of this article you can see Minnis telling the press reporters:

"Dis white top button turn your lights on an' dat bottom red button turn dem off. All dose udder buttons an' switches our D- engineers still figurin' out. My Education Minister next to me say dese tings all take time ta learn ya know."

Please don't tell us Mr. PM that all of the white Finnish engineers who know how to operate these very complex turbine generators have left the Bahamas to go back to their families in Finland home for Christmas. We want so desperately for our Christmas trees to stay lit on Christmas Eve night and we sure 'don't want no' Junkanoo in total darkness.

Good one! LMAO

You're nothing but a most annoying die-hard PLP troll. Ironically though, your trolling posts only serve to galvanize the hatred felt by so many towards the highly corrupt political losers who continue to support the now defunct PLP which shall always remain the embodiment and vessel of the worst possible evil that our country could ever have.

> Dr Donovan Moxey, BPL's chairman, yesterday conceded he was unsure where the $27 figure had come from - especially given that the $650m BPL bond issue has yet to be priced in terms of the interest investors will receive since it has yet to obtain a credit rating.

>"Here is the thing that everyone is getting confused about that," Dr Moxey said. "I think the minister [Desmond Bannister] was asked a question in Parliament, and he was asked: 'What's going to be the average cost to the Bahamian consumer?, and I think his response was between $20 to $30. That's his response to it.

>"This $27, I'm not sure where it came from, but maybe it's based on the fact that the average bill in The Bahamas is $180. So we are not giving out a number, we have not communicated a number. As far as I know the minister indicated a $20 to $30 possible impact to the average consumer. That's it; the average, and that's a wide range.

What a joke! I pointed out ages ago in many of my posts on this topic that the government and BPL were clueless as to what the impact of the outrageouly costly Rate Increase Bonds will be on our monthly light bills for decades to come. But the very deceitful and conniving Desmond Bannister and that snake of an accountant, Geoff Andrews, were content to throw out the ridiculously low amount of $30 per month ($360 per year) to the Bahamian people.

What has taken Whitney Heastie and Donovan Moxey so damn long to admit that Bannister and Andrews have been lying to all of us in an effort to deceitfully quell our justified outrage and anger at the fact that our light bills will indeed be increasing by an astronomical monthly amount for many decades to come?

And this entire matter will remain exacerbated because of the unwillingness of our corrupt Minnis-led FNM government to do away with the "Do Not Disconnect List" maintained for the privileged few and their cronies, as well as the number of illegal connections on the grid whereby electricity is pirated by so many of the politically connected with a blind eye turned to it by BPL.

The corrupt IDB and our corrupt cabinet ministers are co-conspirators in the fleecing of the vast majority of the Bahamian people.

The more likely scenario here is that K P Turnquest went crying to the IDB about all the pressure the Minnis-led government is under and practically begged the IDB to throw a bone of 'good' news the government's way no matter how obviously untruthful it might be.

Are you kidding! The corrupt IDB and our corrupt cabinet ministers are co-conspirators in the fleecing of the vast majority of the Bahamian people.

The more likely scenario here is that K P Turnquest went crying to the IDB about all the pressure the Minnis-led government is under and practically begged the IDB to throw a bone of 'good' news the government's way no matter how obviously untruthful it might be.

Try as you may to convince us otherwise, the toothpaste is out of the tube when it comes to the vast majority of Bahamian voters now knowing full well that the crooked PLP politicians will never be the lesser of the evils confronting the Bahamian people.

Just more robbing of Peter to pay Paul...with more taxes to come for both Peter and Paul. This is the very definition of using other people's money in an effort to 'buy' votes. We see this happening over and over again as a result of the Minnis-led FNM government's inability to govern. Where are the policies designed to successfully create new wealth within the economy in the form of a healthy private business sector offering decent paying jobs?

Minnis and Turnquest are tax and spend freaks who are messing up everything through their obssession with trying to control every aspect of our lives. These two morons must be given the boot by the Bahamian people and never again be allowed to return to active politics. And to these two clowns duped a majority of the voters in May 2017 into thinking no two bozos could ever be worse than Christie and Halkitis. Lord give us the strength to free ourselves of these two corrupt and tyrannical imbeciles!