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trueBahamian says...

I didn't know this was a requirement, but what he's saying sounds extremely reasonable. I'm sure Bahari is making a lot more than $20.00. I'd the government says fill out this application, they price it and you pay $20, then do it. If you look at it from a proprietary standpoint, if this was a private company that owned these images, you either could not use them or you would have to get their permission and pay a huge amount for use of it. $20 paid by a handful of merchants won't lead to a lot of money in the treasury.

trueBahamian says...

Lol. When OPEC initially announced their cut prices didn't spike. If I recall it dropped. The funny thing was they didn't get the demand they expected from China. So, although lower supply, there was much lower demand. Economics won that round. I guess the reporter also didn't hear the China part of the equation either.

trueBahamian says...

Lol. Everybody getting money from the poor, working class and middle class. Some of the wealthy and the well connected are the ones with the highest electricity usage but are the ones who don't pay. So, those who can least afford pay for those who can and also have to pay the premium for those in power to abuse the system.

trueBahamian says...

Are they lacking or are they playing games? Do you believe a bunch of engineers from BPL and Wartsila say together and combined could not figure out how this will play out? The Wartsila guys would knkw their engines better than anyone else and the guys at BPL.know the crap they have there. So, it seems to be a game being played here. A very costly game. Could there be issues? Yes, but I believe they are blowing up a picture to justify spending. Like the old saying goes, follow the money. Once you do this you will understand clearly what is happening.

trueBahamian says...

Say this government?! Lol. All of them are bad. When this government lies they need to make sure the available data in the global community doesn't easily contradict their BS.

trueBahamian says...

Are we fallback to where we started? Are we really to believe these Wartsila engines were brought in and the engineers at BPL and for Wartsila combined only discovered a challenge WAY after these engines were already in use? These guys are up to something. An engineer won't take that long to figure out things won't work well. If you put a new engine in a 30 year old car and don't change the other parts, you know exactly what to expect. So, either everybody knew and kept quiet or the guys are lying now. Either way you cut it a lot of people need to be fired and politicians involved need to be punished.

trueBahamian says...

This doesn't make sense. The engineers who would have been there at the time the Wartsila engines were brought in would have known what challenges existed with installing them and if they didn't project this beforehand, it would have been noticed shortly after installation. Some th ung smells off here. BPL boasted thatbload shedding would be a thing of the past. Now, suddenly, "Oh, oh, we can't guarantee you have power throughout the summer." Look, someone is playing games here. Also, does anyone realize under the FNM, there was an agreement signed with Shell North America for the supply of power. The date for that to start has long passed but you didn't hear a PEP from anyone. Now these arithmatricks guys all of a sudden see an issue with keeping the lights on. This is in the back end of we need to increase electricity bills because of increase in fuel prices. Does anyone realize that fuel prices have dropped considerably for awhile now. The futures contracts th e FNM signed would. It have all been used up when the PLP took office. Prices have been declining for a long time. So, which months did they really have a high fuel costs. It seems the trend here for BPL is to come up with an excuse to fleece the population. Where is the money really going? Logic doesn't line up to what they are saying.

trueBahamian says...

It's unreal in this place. Someone told me that a magistrate asked them (the plaintiff) if they could find an officer to execute the warrant on the defendant. I was stunned to hear that. So you bring a case to the courts, so you're not handling it like some thug on the street and then the courts are telling you, do our job and go look for a police officer to execute a warrant.

On Courts a sign of our nation’s problems

Posted 30 June 2023, 12:02 a.m. Suggest removal

trueBahamian says...

With all of the issues facing the nation should we be concerned about where a citizenship oath is given? If the persons granted citizenship were entitled I say drop the matter and move on. If they were ok with the setting why does anyone else care?

We have the former PM issuing lockdown orders for a week without prior notice during Covid leaving the population to starve if they didn't have food and if you required urgent medication "dog eat ya lunch".

The current administration appears to be playing arithmetricks with the BPL billing blaming fuel prices. I'm going to assume ALL of the FNMs futures contracts were not all used. So, we should have had the benefit of at least a couple months, right? If you check global oil prices they started to come down for awhile now. So, where is this big spike that the PLP needs to catch up on. Can the Minister of Finance along with BPL present to the BPL the numbers behind this story. It's the same story at the pump. Global oil prices dropped and the local dealers went up. I know they argue in the past "the oil in the wells were at the higher price". Guess what the higher price oil was sold at the lower price. So, what is the game going on here?

On Gibson: I performed citizenship oaths too

Posted 29 June 2023, 11:36 p.m. Suggest removal

trueBahamian says...

Goldwynn is getting like Baha Mar aye? Make up rules arbitrarily to limit black Bahamians movements on or near their property. Then when pushed to where they can be exposed try to brush it off by claiming it's a misunderstanding. Slavery was 500 years of misunderstanding. Segregation and racism was mere play on words.