While old ppl suffer greatly the high and mighty and wealthy BEC directors are getting ready to focus thier energies suing the press.

Ok, but is PMH being operated better under the FNM than the plp?

hvac is the air conditioning system. It probably broke down for lack of maintenece and BEC’s constant power cuts and surges.

Nevertheless BEC is borrowing another $550 million to cover past incompetent management. Zero towards renewables, solar, smart grid, privatization or anything else that may help to reduce monthly bills as large as mortgages.

All told BEC is costing the country well over $1 billion a year in waste, taxes and monopolistic charges .

“Thou doth protest to much” William Shakespeare, Hamlet.

The quote is a line spoken by Queen Gertrude in a play within a Shakesprean play as a character proclaims thier innonces too forcefully.

Truly a sad day for our country when a predatory utility company in conjunction with its high mighty and wealthy directors seek to crush the free press. Perhaps going back to the days when ZNS had no competition and corporations voted maybe more appropriate for the current administration.

It’s as if the people of the Bahamas have not suffered enough at the hands of this monopolistic entity.

Please please have some empathy. All we mere mortals have left is conspiracy theories to entertain us in the unrelenting heat, no electricity and electric bills as big as a mortgage.

Couple all this corporate greed with one family benefiting with a strangle hold on the importantation of fuel for bec and all of use, massive VAT and duties on fuel and very soon electric bills, which have doubled in the last year will move to unsustainable levels.

Either we as Bahamians do something or it soon even the rich will not be able to afford electricity.

It’s not just about the rich. It’s about the exploitation of the poor and gross conflicts of interest of the privileged leading to systemic corporate dis functionality at BEC.

Why is thier silence in the major newspapers on the $100 financing of the new generators, board appointments, Lyford Cay and legal representation of the vendors,

Couple this with putting BEC in charge of the implementation of renewable energy and utility bills as large as a mortgage and we have a truly nightmarish scenario for all Bahamians, don’t loose sight of the $650 million Wall Street financing of BEC’s past incompetence which will push our national debt above $10 billion to unsustainable level.

Also don’t forget the badly designed on constructed electrical grid which goes down for the country due to “illegal dumping ??? What’s up with that stupid explanation.

Then the minister said electricity is better under the FNM than under the PLP. I never thought electricity was political.

These deals are only available to the select few like “you know who” and the Government. Small black Bahamian businesses need not apply.

BEC/Government is getting $650 million from Wall Street to pay off thier old debts, and buy new Bunker C Diesel engines which is horrible for the environment with generators that always break down to buy the diesel from “you know who”.

Then they put BEC/Shell in charge of solar energy for the Bahamas. This will ensure the our push to renewables will get mess right up and we will have to continue to use Agrekko crappy generators for generations to come. bEc bills are now as big as a house mortgage payment.

Change will only come when the general public stops listening to the PLP and FNM and fighting each other and work as a team to stop the exploitation.

Maybe we as a general public can practice “peaceful resistance” by having a “lights out day” where we turn off the lights In our homes for one day to save. And then we move on from their increasing the pressure on bec until they are forced to stop these generator purchases, sweatheat gas purchases and the sabotage of our push to renewables. Forget the PLP and FNM and the new talking heads at bec.

I think they should use Aggrekko and Shell and Focol and BEC monopolies

Then we can overcharge and under deliver for the Bahamian ppl again.

Keep BEC away from solar!

“(IDB) financing to begin required improvements to Exuma's airport that could run into the $40-$45m "ball park".

“It’s the people’s time”. What a cruel joke the FNM is playing.

At $50 million per family airport upgrade Hot Mix quickly gets to the $750 million in contracts. No wonder he resign.

Add to this $650 million in loans for the incompetent BPL without a single management change, renewables or transparency out national debt will be well over $10 billion.

A couple ppl getting richer while we suffer.

There is zero incentive for the Commercial banking consortium or the Government to reduce debit card fees from 3% of every transact to 5 cents which is the cost in the US.

On a $100 transaction the bank takes $3 and the government takes 36 cents. Why would they cut such a massive profit which they divided to Canada and the government take in VAT to support their bloated payroll?

The cost are hidden from general public because it is taken from the merchants.

The country suffers as merchants prefer cash which increases robberies. But we have become numb to crime as we have the highest crime rate in the Western Hemisphere.

Besides the bankers live out west protected in thier gated communities talking nonsense as to why we as a Nation are so backwards in finance.

Decades after commercial banks have been fleecing the Bahamian public with a 3% fee on every debit account transaction where they simply withdraw the funds from a good balance the IMF now tells us?

Where is the central bank in protecting merchants? where is the government protecting merchants? where is the chamber of commerce protecting their members?

I guess in another decade the IMF will tell us that exchange controls also suppress economic growth and the unconscionable cost of electricity is a major drag on commerce.

Well said but nothing will change.