Davis promises televised BPL hearings Philip Brave Davis.
A Progressive Liberal Party (PLP) government would hold publicly televised hearings into the affairs at Bahamas Power and Light (BPL), PLP Leader Philip Brave Davis said yesterday.
“There has been one bad decision after another at BPL and it has cost the Bahamian people dearly,” said Davis, who served as former minister of works with responsibility with BPL.
“There is no accountability; there is no transparency.
“The Rate Reduction Bond will add more to our electricity bill, and there appears to be no plan to reduce the cost of electricity to absorb that.
Osbourne: Bahamas has long way to go on women in positions of power Darnell Osborne.
Although The Bahamas was recently ranked 77 out of 162 countries on the United Nations Development Program’s (UNDP) Gender Inequality Index (GII), this country still “has a long way to go with respect to equity for women”, prominent businesswoman and accountant Darnell Osborne said.
Osborne, who is also the former chairperson of Bahamas Power and Light, called Bahamian society “very chauvinistic”, with the slightest differing of opinions from women turning into “lowball personal attacks… of the most sexist and misogynistic type”.
“At a former place of employment – although I was highly qualified – a board filled with old men thought it appropriate to cap my salary even though hiring a male with far less experience, hard skills, soft skills and capabilities and feeling justified in paying him more. Sometimes, their justifications seem to be the old fashioned and outdated th