“Davis insists BPL consumers suffering for govts. mistakes” – The Nassau Guardian

Excerpt from this article; “Opposition Leader Philip Brave Davis yesterday said the Minnis administration is exacting a price on the Bahamian people for the error and mistakes in government’.

Last week, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Finance Peter Turnquest advised that the government will have to raise taxes if Bahamas Power and Light (BPL) does not increase light bills.

‘The Bahamian people ought not to be paying for [the governments] mistakes at all,’ Davis said.

‘They are the ones that have created this mess at BPL; BPL was on the path of recovery and providing sustainable, reliable and afforded electricity.”

It would appear to me that each and every time the leader of the opposition Progressive Liberal Party (PLP) opens his mouth on issues such as these, he only shows how incompetent he was as Deputy Prime Minister and as the Minister of Public works, the government ministry under which Bahamas Power and Light (BPL) falls.

To listen to Mr. Davis’s narrative; “BPL was on the path of recovery and providing sustainable, reliable and affordable electricity”, this is like Mr. Davis saying that load shedding only occurs when the Free National Movement (FNM) is the government and it is ludicrous because unfortunately he [Mr. Davis] cannot give any evidence of what they are saying beside asking us to take him at his word – right.

What is unfortunate here is that the present Progressive Liberal Party (PLP) organization would like for you to believe that all of the woes that have befallen Bahamas Power and Light have only happened within the past three years or so and that they had nothing to do with the problems that the cooperation’s face today; we all know better than this and my question is this is how Mr. Davis’ wishes to drive his bid to be prime minister by misleading the public?

The truth about BPL is the successive governments, this includes all PLP governments [talks and plans of FREE electricity], have been delinquent in keeping the technology of our power company up to date and keeping the equipment properly maintained.  

Another truth is that Mr. Brave Davis who now seeks to points fingers on this issue now seeks to say that he may had not done anything to alleviate the problem but it was “planned”, why is it always ‘planned’?

The long and short of it all is simply this; unless/until the Progressive Liberal Party (PLP) can admit to its role in bringing the power company to this present state of affairs and continues to blame the present government of all of the power company’s woes; they cannot and should not be trusted to run the country.

This is like them are trying to convince the Bahamian people that all their economic dealings were above board and none led to the five downgrades that the country experienced in the last five years that the PLP governed.

As they prop up their party with a new, new, new [new] leader in the Hon. Philip ‘Brave’ Davis; wasn’t he there when all went off course during the last PLP administration?

They should not be trusted.

The PLP fails for one reason, it is their nature.

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