yes, I agree, the FNM created the PMH mess.

Now that that has been established, voting PLP will correct this problem.

I am being cynical

Wow, this is excellent news and relief for Grand Bahamians proving that the PLP has come through for Grand Bahamians. We must all now vote PLP to make this happen.

Once the government purchase of the electrical plant and infrastructure is completed, Grand Bahamians can look forward to the perfect track record of BPL of providing reliable and cost effective electricity and renewable energy similar to what is being experienced in Long Island, Crooked Island, Ragged Island and Eleuthera.

Freeport, once the PLP wins the next election is definitely on the way back to its boom town days. Gone are the days of major project failures. Let me just name some:

The Royal Oasis (Princess Resort) Ginn Sur Mer (West End) The Grand Lucayan Resort Oban Energies (The Oil Refinery Scandal) 2018 "Tech Hub" Initiative: Starting around 2018 - the "Silicon Valley of the Caribbean." Freeport Airport Expansion GBPA

... but in case you vote FNM they will be able to deliver for Grand Bahama as well ...

Wow, this is excellent news and relief for Grand Bahamians proving that the PLP has come through for Grand Bahamians. We must all now vote PLP to make this happen.

Once the government purchase of the electrical plant and infrastructure is completed, Grand Bahamians can look forward to the perfect track record of BPL of providing reliable and cost effective electricity and renewable energy similar to what is being experienced in Long Island, Crooked Island, Ragged Island and Eleuthera.

Freeport, once the PLP wins the next election is definitely on the way back to its boom town days. Gone are the days of major project failures. Let me just name some:

The Royal Oasis (Princess Resort)
Ginn Sur Mer (West End)
The Grand Lucayan Resort
Oban Energies (The Oil Refinery Scandal)
2018 "Tech Hub" Initiative: Starting around 2018 - the "Silicon Valley of the Caribbean."
Freeport Airport Expansion
GBPA

... am sorry, i don't get it, why would Robert Dupuch-Carron be buying 50 ambulances for the family islands? Assuming a cost of $100,000 each x 50 ambulances = $5,000,000.

.... i can't see the make and model of the ambulances so I assume they are from a European manufacturer which doesn't have a dealership in Nassau so where are the spare parts gonna come from? where is the maintenance gonna come from? has the government budgeted for their maintenance? have driver's been trained? ok, 6 have arrived, where are the other 44? when will they get to the family islands? before the election? I only see one in the picture? where are the other 5?

and where did all this money come from, is there quiproquo or murky linkage to other contracts? or is it being done out of the goodness of Roberts heart? is it related to his running for parliament? or are we as Bahamian so desensitized that appearances of corruption are now normalized?

I like going to Fusion because it is air conditioned and you can get out of the house but I often wondered to myself how can they afford to pay the electric bill? It must be at least $100,000 a month.

The cost of electricity including back up generators due to the unreliability of BPL is the single largest drag on Bahamian GDP growth.

Businesses large and small, manufacturing and retail have been crushed and many have simply gone out of business.

We can't manufacture, assemble, freeze or keep anything cool in the Bahamas due to electricity cost.

This is by design. The culprits are a government / corporate duopoly, with ownership of power plants, electrical grid, shipping, imports, PPP's, Shell/Focol fuel importation monopoly and centralization of control over every single power plant in every island of the Bahamas. The entire infrastructure is run down, last century and above ground.

The government/corporate control group has frozen out small business participation in electrical generation and is only paying lip service to solar energy. And when they allow solar energy it must be sold to the power monopoly and prices are kept high for every citizen of the Bahamas.

This has eliminated the middle classes.

hi hrysippus

Ok, let’s do the math. Melissa is projected to have a direct hit on Aklins at 2pm Wednesday, population 692. High tides are at 12 noon and 12 midnight, rising about 3 feet. The low barometric pressure of hurricanes will cause the sea to rise at least 3 feet; the system is projected to generate between 2 and 3 feet of rain. On average the Bahamas is only a couple of feet above sea level.

All these flooding issues are before we consider hurricane winds greater than 70 mph. Not to mention rip tides washing everything into the ocean.

We have experience with this major flooding during Hurricane Dorian in Abaco and Grand Bahama. At its worst parts of Freeport were completely submerged under 10 feet of water. I think there are still bodies in trailers after 6 years.

It’s unclear to me what decision is there left for the Bahamas and the Prime Minister to make but to evacuate and house everyone that needs to in Nassau. A magnanimous offer from Atlantis, Baha Mar and Bahamas Air to spear head, transport and house the people of the Southern Bahamas in a major public private partnership to hedge against disaster would be a great decision. Let’s get going and not regret this next Monday.

Also the Bahamas has contingent reserves of $60 million just for this scale of operation.

Lundy, is it possible to see the Disaster Risk Management Departments evacuation policy and procedure for the Southern Islands? I see that the DRM is funded with $60 million including $17 million from dormant bank accounts of Bahamians and foreigners.

Specifically, how do we evacuate 2,093 people? Mayaguana/208, Inagua/856, Crooked Island/293, Acklins/692, Ragged Island/44. By plane or boat? And just when are we going to stop considering evacuation and make a decision? The winds and rains have already started.

So much talk, so much money, so little action.

I find little sympathy for what happened to Susan in the public domain and a heavy focus on the theft of food supplies which surely did happen. However there were Bahamian that were starving during Covid.

As Christians we are reminded of Christ's Parable of the Sower where most of the seeds were wasted but one out of four did fall upon fertile ground. What would have happened of the Sower did not plant at all because of the possibility that birds were going to steal the seeds? With no food the people would starve.

Susan and her NGO averted tens of thousands of Bahamians from starving to death during Covid. I know I donated as well. Then she was physically arrested her for theft and held in custody for 24 hours. 5 years later on the eve of Hurricane 🌀 Melissa the audit in a timely and mysteriously manner is suddenly tabled in parliament with no wrongdoing found and confirming that task force of NGOs and Government partnership achieved its objective and averted a national crisis.

We are now looking for NGO’s to assist the government in the aftermath of Melissa … any volunteers 🥺

Let’s focus on Cooked Island, Aklines, Mayaguana and Ragged Island which are directly in the path of Melissa.

If we can send a 737 to Jamaica why can’t we evacuate these islands which may be submerged like Abaco and Grand Bahamas during Dorian.