By NATARIO McKENZIE
Tribune Business Reporter
nmckenzie@tribunemedia.net
Prime Minister Perry Christie yesterday described as “too amazing” the occurrence of three island wide black-outs on New Providence within a one-week period, adding that that the situation needed “the highest investigation”.
Speaking with reporters following his address at the International Civil Aviation Negotiation Conference (ICAN), Mr Christie said: “I have talked to all of the persons that I could with respect to the cause of it. I have asked them, and I know that they are trouble shooting to determine the cause.
“I’m advised that this could be human error. I have a view on that, and I have asked them to investigate it with a view to determining exactly what happened. I’m, too, concerned that on a Sunday afternoon, when people are home, when international events are taking place at Albany, Fort Montagu, when people of prominence, when Bahamians are home watching sports as they do, that this happened for the second time in a week. That is too catastrophic, too unusual and is deserving of the highest investigation.”
BPL last Thursday blamed a “damaged underground cable” for blackouts on Tuesday and Wednesday, and customers were warned at the time that they may experience “intermittent challenges with their power supply until operations have stabilised”.
New Providence residents suffered another island-wide power outage on Sunday following a weekend of electricity challenges. Residents complained of intermittent outages on Friday and Saturday.
Mr Christie added: “I have been unofficially advised that they describe it at this point as human error. I want to see what that really means because it’s too amazing to happen twice in a week.”
BPL chief executive, Pam Hill, yesterday suggested that such investigations were routine for the company following unplanned outages.
“As we look at yesterday’s generation and what all we did to try and make sure that the system will continue to operate, and we wouldn’t have an outage, I feel good about the level of professionalism that our folks use to maintain the system,” she said.
“We always do an investigation after every trip of a unit. If anything is out of the ordinary for what had been programmed for the day, we do our own in-depth study. What I would imagine is that he [the Prime Minister] is referring to the natural 20/20 hindsight analysis that we take.”
Comments
Well_mudda_take_sic 7 years, 4 months ago
TO CROOKED CHRISTIE WE ALL SAY: Stop trying to distance yourself from the very problem that YOU created Mr. Crooked Christie. Yes, YOU Mr. Crooked Christie are responsible for the power outages and yes YOU Mr. Crooked Christie (and the very greedy fuel supplier Sir Snake) already know full well why these recurring outages are occurring with increasing frequency and for longer periods of time. The suffering Bahamian people and ailing businesses are not so easily fooled by your patently false and condescending pleas of ignorance, as if the many years of the now bankrupt BEC's problems created by YOU, and tossed by YOU for political distancing purposes to the management company BPL, have only just come to your attention. Your efforts Mr. Crooked Christie to deceive the Bahamian people make you look like the corrupt fool that YOU truly are! Yes Mr. Crooked Christie, you are truly an emperor without clothes because the Bahamian people can clearly see straight through that very ornately decorated yellow robe that you now wear to please your corrupt Red China friends.
ohdrap4 7 years, 4 months ago
the reason they do not release the business plan is that such a plan has conditions to be met bby govt., and such are not met..
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