The Tribune

EDITOR, The Tribune

Merriam-Webster defines “nebulous” as relating to, or resembling, a nebula. And a “nebula” is defined as any of numerous clouds of gas or dust in interstellar space. That is precisely the understanding that I get when reading your Friday front page headline “No escape from soaring bills” and I suppose Mr Bannister means BPL/BEC cannot escape although that is not particularly clear because the average consumer in this country cannot escape from other soaring bills all around.

Mr Bannister goes on to say that Government cannot keep subsidising BPL. Now that’s a mouthful because, on the face of it, he seems to say that they are unable to generate power at even a break even rate.

But Mr Bannister did not fall off a turnip truck and like the rest of us he has been in this country a long time and must have heard the stories circulating on sip-sip and other social media, of various and sundry people and institutions that owed BPL massive amounts of money and just had not paid, because they were on a list of special cases not to be turned off.

In some cases, important people had meters removed and replaced with fresh new ones so the debt could be lost. I don’t think anyone has a problem with paying what it legitimately costs to produce electricity, but a lot of people have a problem paying for legacy debt that they don’t even know, and are not being told, how it arose in the first place.

Please publish a list of Debtors, Mr Bannister, including the Government of the Bahamas if it is on that list. Let us know why these debtors have not yet been prosecuted and dealt with. You are no better than the previous politicians if you think that airy fairy nebulous declarations are going to flush anymore in The Bahamas. That bus broke down on May 10th 2017.

BRUCE G. RAINE

Nassau,

July 8, 2017.