Just one day after wagging their fingers at the Free National Movement (FNM) for daring to protest against the Grand Bahama Power Company (GBPC), the ever-faithful “New Day” mouthpiece, West Grand Bahama and Bimini MP Kingsley Smith, decided to put on his own grand performance of outrage.

“Smith calls for answers over high electricity bills in GB,” cried the headlines of The Nassau Guardian.

How noble. How righteous. How laughably hypocritical.

Smith thundered that the hikes were “outrageous,” “unjustifiable,” and “predatory.” He even confessed to sharing the very same frustration as his constituents. The man who, just yesterday, was criticizing others for complaining, suddenly found his own light bill a little too hot to handle. One might almost call it a Damascus moment—except Smith is no Paul, and this certainly isn’t salvation.

But here lies the bitter irony: the very thing Smith accuses GBPC of—predatory pricing and leaving families bewildered—is precisely what the PLP government itself has presided over across the entire Bahamas. New Providence? Sky-high bills. Abaco? Outages. Eleuthera? Same story. Yet Smith stands on the soapbox demanding accountability, as though his party hasn’t been feeding Bahamians the same “predatory” electricity experience under BPL for years.

No, sir—what is truly predatory is how the PLP government swept into office on promises of lowering costs, improving infrastructure, and delivering relief, only to leave Bahamians more powerless and broke than before. “New Day”? More like “Same Bill, Higher Price.”

And now the great plan? To sic URCA on GBPC, as though the government’s own failures with BPL somehow qualify them as energy watchdogs. Grand Bahamians might have stomached a little rule-bending to wrestle GBPC away from the Port Authority—if only the PLP’s record with BPL wasn’t such a blazing disaster.

Smith’s call for “clarity and accountability” from GBPC rings hollow. It’s political theatre. Because the PLP still owes Bahamians clarity and accountability for the deal with PIKE in New Providence, for the ballooning electricity rates nationwide, and for the hollow promises that now sit in the dark alongside households struggling to pay their bills.

Yes, Grand Bahama needs answers. But so does the entire Bahamas.

We don’t just need GBPC to explain itself—we need the PLP to finally explain why, after all their grand promises, light bills are higher, outages are longer, and hope is dimmer.

Until then, Kingsley Smith’s outrage is nothing more than the sound of a hypocritical government talking out of both sides of its mouth while Bahamians keep paying the price.

The Bahamas deserves better.

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