When someone claims “The buck stops here” it usually means they have accepted responsibility for the issue(s) at hand.
Mr Davis however immediately blamed the 3 workers who are at the center of the BPL overtime scandal.

The PM has not now nor ever committed/presented a path forward to a solution with any transparency
Neither has he provided reports updating any of his government’s previous missives, plans and policy failures.

That the head of the very union organized to protect BPL workers is the person who’s made the most money in this scandal is just another corrupt campaign at criminal harassment and intimidation that has plagued this government.

Wilson complained that the information revealed about his so called ‘overtime’ was a distraction given the egregious management errors at BPL.
Yet his entitled attitude towards his own corruption is another plank of fuel in the overall pyre that is BPL.

And all those overtime hours he and his mates supposedly worked between Christmas and New Years (when there were no blackouts, emergencies etc) was nothing more than falsified hours added at the end of the year. The previous years will tell the same story.
And this is the guy in charge of protecting the rights of his fellow union members??
For shame!

Wondering the same thing myself!!

Industrial generators are designed to run past 100 hours let alone the 24 hours quoted by the Minister because if they could not our hotels, government entities, multi family residences wouldn’t invest in their purchase-and maintenance.

So it would be surprising given the prevalence, the need for generators here and the collective knowledge that implies for anyone reading this article to conclude that the BPL caused the damage described here.
Not saying they’re not culpable for the ‘mismanagement’ of our money, the loss of trust given them.

No, the implication here seems to be that had the BPL presumed the system operators employed by Bahamian government entities to be so incompetent they should have “communicated” with the latter to ensure they followed the most rudimentary law of maintaining their generators.

“Do not operate without a steady supply of fuel.”

Growing pains? Bah!
We’ve had much ballyhooing from this gov’t, promise after promise that the pain from the ever increasing forfeiture of our hard earned monies, from the successive & prolonged blackouts we’ve endured only to be told these are “growing pains”???

We’ve suffered from what they now call “growing pains” going on for 5 years.

Sounds like a stone baby to me, all hope and promise but no satisfaction for any of us doing the be-labouring, the waiting-in the dark!

So if Mr Monroe, his prosecutors & his PD are doing that demanded by Bahamian law concerning their sworn duty “to support and protect witnesses and victims”, not jeopardize the “life, safety and well being of victims and witnesses..and…to use good judgment” as to any impending dangers, then why would none of them act proactively act to protect their witnesses?

Surely they don’t want us to think they care nothing about the ongoing intimidation and murderous efforts tanking their prosecutions.

One can surmise that just as in the cases being adjudicated from the previous arrests of prominent members of our military and judiciary, the “accommodations” offered in his plea deal such as “less than the minimum ten year sentence” (and not the max of a life term), will make this co-operating criminal join his fellows in telling a informative & fascinating tale!

My father a barrister & solicitor of some 55 years is whispering in my ear from the grave...
“Why would any competent fellow of my profession allow his client to send a ‘pre-signed’ lease to a prospective tenant? Wouldn’t this deny him any control over the terms stated therein to be fulfilled by said tenant?
What protects the landlord if his tenant alters the terms of the lease for which he’s already signed?”

As an attorney licensed to practice in The Bahamas, indeed as the MOJ Mr Munroe knows full well that the protection of witnesses & victims lies within his own ministry.

He knows that the Crown, the courts and the police have an obligation codified in The Criminal Evidence (Witness Anonymity) Act of 2011 precisely for victim support and witness protection as the core of the administration of justice. An Act was worded to protect victims and witnesses like Mr McPhee because these persons were so routinely murdered and intimidated as to render justice moot in The Bahamas.

And yet Mr Munroe declares this obligation lies with such witnesses and victims to provide the evidence of their endangerment??

“Court Justice Officers (CJOs) and the police have a duty to provide protection for
witnesses and victims”…and not “to jeopardize the life, safety, freedom and well being of these and other co-operating persons”
That “the best protection is the awareness of potential risks of harm, to exercise good judgment and caution in all their interactions (with these) prior to their testimony.”

This includes providing for their anonymity from the accused and their attorneys such as redacting documents of “their names, addresses and testimony…up to 24 hours prior to testimony for qualifying criminal cases”.

So Mr Munroe would you care to amend your statement to include a commitment to justice?

It always amazes me that the courts (and parents) treat children so badly.
And although the testimony from this child indicates she does not trust her Mum to stand up for her, that she feared her Mother would allow her abuser to beat her and so invite more sexual abuse, no one seems to appreciate the enormous implications for this child’s quality of life.
Nor the steadfastness and courage it takes to undergo such harrowing experiences, first by her abuser, then police and now this court.

I’m a grown woman, it took me years to acknowledge my husband’s abuse and as I feared, despite all evidence even my own children refused this acknowledgment.