Thank God it is just BEC, and not the country. The last time Potcake had a government job, he almost sold Bahamian sovereignty to Hugo Chavez's cockamamie Petro-Caribe plan. All that we had to do, was kick out every current petroleum supplier in the country, never do oil bizness with the US, create a nationalised petroleum consortium with Venezuela, and they would take equity -- up to half, buy all hydrocarbon products from Venezuela, get a break on the price, get it all on credit, and owe Venezuela money for the next three generations. And Potcake Miller was hot to do this. The only reason why it didn't happen was that Christie was away on stroke-leave, getting his head valves repaired in the US, and Mudda Pratt was in charge, and she thought that Venezuela was a disease.

How's your life going? Is your standard of living climbing year after year? Have you got enough money to retire on? Can you afford everything that you want to?

I don't move at all in Symonette circles. But when I meet the man around town at Harbour Bay, or in a restaurant, or at events, he greets me warmly even though he doesn't know my name. He quietly supports a variety of Bahamian endeavors, including some that no one ever knows about.

I would rather have the government run by a business oligarchy than a retarded kleptomaniac and his band of unpatriotic, unwashed, odious, in-the-closet hypocrites and tiefs.

The market noise here is hilarious. I would vote for Symonette. He is not retarded like Perry Christie. He wouldn't tolerate the crap that Minnis takes from his own people. Unlike anyone else, he has a world view of economics. He is not xenophobic like the unwashed, unenlightened here are.

The Bahamas has not advanced, rather it has regressed measuring by economic measures since the criminals in the PLP took over at independence. They have done a good job at elevating a few select Black families, indoctrinating those with narrow minds and poor education to believe in their lies, while robbing them blind, and sacrificing the good of the country and of the people by enriching themselves. And the wonder, glory and astonishment of it all, it that most folks (present company of commentators included here), are too thick to realise that. The sheeple still sing the hosannas of the party as they are led to the slaughter.

Taking a more pragmatic and enlightened solution, as Symonette does, it to take what you have and make some good out of it. If Nature gives you lemons, make lemonade, or switcher or whatever. We have a whole pile of Haitians, illegal, legal, semi-legal, belongers whatever. There will be no Final Solution, like boxing them all up and shipping them back to Haiti. We can close the borders, but we do have a sizable population (estimates between 70,000 and 90,000). SO what do you do with them. Bahamianise them. Turn them into productive citizens that contribute to the economic well-being of the country. They have a heck of a better work ethic than us. They are enterprising. They have something to contribute. They will continue to be a problem if we marginalise them, so let's make them productive. And Lord knows that the Bahamian gene pool needs some chlorine.

The sheeple are doing exactly what the PLP want them to do -- concentrate on the little stuff that doesn't matter, and ignore the economic, political, intellectual and moral desecration of this land.

Carry on smartly, sheeple.

The trouble is that Bran doesn't practice what he preaches. At the outset of his DNA party launch, he said that he was democratically elected as leader. He was a self-appointed dictator who shaded the truth, and that is totally Third World Thinking.

The other stuff is just too wild to contemplate. It the government bought drones, the RBDF officers would use them to spy on their sweethearts.

The overloaded wire story is fantastic to say the least. Is Leslie Miller telling us, the wire was so overloaded that it could ignite some oil casually left lying around in a trench. Is there much of this oil floating in Clifton in the trenches and on the floors? And the overloaded wire must have been glowing red hot, like a toaster element. Bunker C crude which is what Clifton burns, is hard to light unless you have open ignition like a flame, and not just a hot wire. Something doesn't jive.

While all of this stuff -- the Bran circus, the Miller Circus, the BEC circus, the semi-braindead but still loquacious and unintelligible prime minister circus -- it is all pretty funny except that it is our country that they are jerking around.

Somehow it all seems like a bad dream, and I landed in the land of lying retards.

Let the web shops run BEC. The power will always be on.

One would think that providing a reliable, inexpensive supply of energy to support the economy would be an overriding concern of the government. It is part of nation-building.

Instead, the Prime Minister flies off to watch an NBA game in person in Florida.

I honour your courage in carrying on with this series in spite of the murder of your son.

The solutions to this scourge of crime visiting upon this archipelago in the sun must be found and realised.

Peace.

Unfortunately for the Bahamas, the Pindling regime turned to criminal enterprise and moral turpitude with the drug running, instead of running the country to empower Black Bahamians. That is where history diverges again. The Bahamas has not recovered yet and may never from their perfidious acts.

I think that the word "PLP" and the word "finest" are oxymorons. Anyone who associates those two words is also an oxymoron -- without the oxy part of course.

Even if they did hire foreign (Canadian) promotion experts as did the Cayman Islands, there is nothing really to promote, other than a business getting its pockets picked by the Port Authority.

There needs to be real governance change and policy change to make it a business-friendly place.

Rather than having a cash register out waiting for a pound of flesh from every business that expresses interest, they should be enticing businesses with grants, free utilities for a year, free business licences.

Cities, states, provinces and countries do this. They provide incentives worth millions of dollars just for a business to relocate and provide economic output.

Right now, there is absolutely no incentive for a business to move to Freeport.