“PLP Leader Slam Govt. Over BPL” – The Tribune

Excerpt from this article; “IN the face of Bahamas Power and Light’s continued instabilities, Opposition Leader Philip ‘Brave’ Davis on Friday criticized the Minnis administration’s decision to ‘go away from all’ the plans left in place by the Progressive Liberal Party.

Speaking on the issue on the sidelines of the swearing-in ceremony of Stephen Isaacs as the country’s newest Chief Justice, Mr. Davis insisted the government’s decision to gut critical units at BPL and ‘torch’ sustainability plans introduced by the Christie administration, a sled to ‘massive systematic failures.”

Mr. Leader of the Opposition; EXCUSE YOU!

Exactly which plans left by the Progressive Liberal Party (PLP)?

There must come a time when the Leader of the Opposition must or should be prepared to tell the truth and shame the ‘devil’.

Facts are that Bahamas Power and Light (BPL) formerly The Bahamas Electrical Corporation (BEC) has been poorly maintained and managed under successive governments; this being both past Free National Movement (FNM) and Progressive Liberal Party (PLP) governments.  Due to this poor management and maintenance the demand for electricity has greatly outpaced the ability by the power company to supply it; this has lead to load shedding exercises over the past decades, with each year the situation only getting worst.  The reality at this present moment is that along  with the increased demand on the grid with additions of resorts such as Baha Mar and Albany there are two main generators offline due to certain ‘unfortunate mishaps’ at the plants.  At this time as BPL is attempting to rectify this situation, they are also attempting to keep up with the expected increased summer demand for power without two of its assets.

 So with that in mind, I would like to ask Mr. Davis; Leader of the Official Opposition Progressive Liberal Party (PLP), did the PLP’s plans include and provided for supplying power under these conditions – that is there were really plans at all in the first place.

What I honestly and truly find amazing, is that the opposition neglected their responsibilities in this regard but only now seek to condemn others that are actually working to resolve the very vexing problem; while they seen to concede to having only talked about it.  If there is an honest discussion to be had, we should bring to light the Progressive Liberal Party’s elimination on the payment of fuel surcharge on the cost of electricity that almost crippled the already financially strapped corporation and the corporations difficulties to recover from this decision by a past PLP government.

The Progressive Liberal Party’s (PLP’s) commentary on this matter has ALL been disingenuous, in light of the present conditions at BPL and in the manner in which they had handled the matter when the Leader of the Opposition was in charge of BPL formerly BEC under ‘better’ conditions.

So now they [the PLP] are asking for answers and I ask why weren’t their “wonderful” plans implemented during their administration, when the Leader of the Opposition was in control of the power company?

The Opposition should be ashamed of attempting to take advantage of this situation for political gain given the fact that they were unable to solve the county’s energy problems but we all know that they are not…..these men and women know no shame.

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