“Free electricity pledge by the PLP – Offer to residents who stick to specified limit” – The Tribune

Except from this article; “IF elected to office for another term, the Progressive Liberal Party said it plans to ‘make the cost of electricity free to residential customers who limit their monthly use to below specified limits,’ continue the implementation of National Health Insurance and stimulate job creation.

The party also pleaded to create a Ministry of Communication and Information to foster greater ‘transparency and accountability,’ annual business planning and reporting for each government ministry as well as training programs for older citizens who want to learn new skills.

The promises are contained in the PLP’s ‘Action Plan for Moving Forward Together’ which the party said would be published on its re-launched website, ww.myplp.org”

Yes indeed, we have officially entered “silly season” which has the Progressive Liberal Party (PLP), if re-elected, not just saying that they will make electricity affordable for all but rather make it “free to residential customers who limit their monthly use to below specified limits”; what are these ‘specified limits’ and why do I get the feeling that these ‘specified limits’ may just be enough for a person to keep their refrigerator running without incurring any expense; God be with you if you like to take baths in hot water and let us not forget that when this, or anything similar, has been attempted in the past, the financial quagmire that Bahamas Power and Light (BPL) formerly The Bahamas Electrical Cooperation (BEC) was left in.

The Progressive Liberal Party (PLP) took the Free National Movement (FNM) to task over the proposal of removing value-added tax (VAT) from certain bread-basket items and prescription medication but now stand before us and tell us that they can give us free electricity if we stay within specified monthly limits; I really want to hear the rest of this story because we all know that there is no such thing as free, especially with this Progressive Liberal Party; one way or the other ‘someone’ will pay.

But hold on as things get even more strange; the Progressive Liberal Party also promises; if returned to power of course, to ‘create a Ministry of Communication and Information to foster greater ‘transparency and accountability’; first I would like to say that this is what Bahamas Information Services (BIS) was intended for and secondly; is the PLP finally conceding to the fact they have failed the country when it comes to transparency and accountability?  As MANY questions still have gone unanswered, some dating back to the very moment that they took office in May of 2012.  I tend to reflect on the formation of Resolve Bahamas back in 2014, whose purpose was to remove over $100m in bad debt from The Bank of The Bahamas and he more recent promise by the Prime Minister to give an accounting for this entity before Parliament was dissolved but yet they come with a weak apology and the fabulous promises that they will actually do better.

I patiently await Pamela Hill, CEO of BPL, to now come back and inform us that she knows not of what the Prime Minister speaks.

The Progressive Liberal Party fails for one reason, it is their nature.

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