Yes, as a public school teacher and part of the Bahamas Teachers Union I would like to have all school children be forced to buy all their school uniforms and school books from a company owned by the Teachers Union and the profits split between government and the union.

Also all text books must written by school teachers and sold to the children.

Also all food vendors at the schools must be owned by the Union and profits split with the government.

All computers must be sold to the children by the union.

Too much itemization, customs rates, Vat exceptions and customs categories used to compile worthless statistics on what is imported. Power outage also causes inputs to be lost and computers fried.

The problem is not the system but dysfunctional FNM and PLP leadership.

Pray tell we why the Finance Minister has to be so granularly involved the details of computer software?

Until the politician get out of the business of electrical power, water, telephone, road works, mail delivery, ports, airports education Bahamians will continue to punish with a poor quality of life.

Can anyone tell me how many "major generators" BEC has? Say if they have 4 generators that would mean 75% of our generating capacity is off line.

The CEO at BEC has zero consumer skills. He has no shame, if he did he would resign....in fact the entire BEC Board should resign. I guess they like the $40,000 director fees for doing zero. The boy from Lyford Cay has made zero difference. Might as well had given that $40,000 to my boy in Bain Town that could use the money.

Also whats up with Agrekko? Can't find much about their Florida office which looks like an unoccupied warehouse when you Google them. Why no statements from them?

Also whats up with Shell? If they are in charge of the new generators why are they so silent. Whats the latest with the Netherlands based investigation into their multi billion dollar Nigerian corruption scandal? Don't seem like much of any foreign corrupt practices act or regulations on that side of the ocean. Probably explains why we have to always go so far away to get anything done while Florida Power and Light produces the cheapest and most reliable electricity next door. Anyone ask them in Miami what we should do? I guess not.

Also whats up with the new $650 million bond slush fund being raised by crooked Wall Street and fronted by a Bahamian SPV to bury decades of BEC losses, incompetent run pension funds, over priced polluting Bunker C oil purchased from you know who with a sweetheart deal and massive oil leak at Clifton into the water table and ocean.

We better get on our knees and pray there is no hurricanes this year. The electrical grid with it poor engineering layout and non maintained overhead power lines is the next disaster. This time the lights will go off for good. Maybe then they will stop sending out these outrageous bills.

😂...10 Haitians serving 1 foreigner in Bakers Bay.

Only Hard working Bahamians speaking Creole need only apply.

Yes but the Abaco port is better run under the FNM than the PLP.

Better give Hotmix the $40 million contract to fix.

Well muddy, you are spot on.

BEC $550 million US$ bond issuance to fund $200 million in BEC pensions is the test and template to transfer the government bank debt to foreign and bond holders or the general public.

The banks that now hold the government debt/pension payments now want it off their balance sheets not that the ppl are being taxed into oblivion and the national debt dropped by $30 million (a flash in the pan on the $12 billion in debt on an accrual basis including the current value of future pension payments).

Let’s face facts and stop the smoke and mirrors...the Bahamas is essentially broke and all this borrowing will finish us off ($750 million to Hot Mix to repair all the broken down runways in the Bahamas, $550 for BEC to pay off old debts, and $3 billion for the unfunded general government pension fund).

Ohh, don’t forget, it’s hurricane season which usually costs $100 if we are hit.

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.