New Providence residents could be in for a rough holiday weekend if tensions between government negotiators and executives of the Bahamas Electrical Workers Union are not ironed out.

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New Providence residents could be in for a rough holiday weekend if tensions between government negotiators and executives of the Bahamas Electrical Workers Union are not ironed out.
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"So sad .......

SO done..."

"Keep your lamps burning brightly".

New Providence residents could be in for a rough holiday weekend if tensions between government negotiators and executives of the Bahamas Electrical Workers Union are not ironed out.



Look here, I done see I ga have to go Florida tomorrow! I gat to much business to handle to be played with by angry employees! This situation looking real bad for all of us! :mad:

If you owe them, pay the damn people!

Isn't it allways that BEC threatens strike's in the summer months?
I think it is time we put a "long term" solution to this blatant terrorism.

No Bahamian under the sun, can be happy with BEC threatening to strike., or going on go slow every year.
I mean.,...there must be ONE YEAR AT LEAST where these goons were satisfied.
The people are getting fed up....and to be honest, those line's person's jobs are not that difficult.

Get my drift?

Look here, I done see I ga have to go Florida tomorrow! I gat to much business to handle to be played with by angry employees! This situation looking real bad for all of us! :mad:
If you owe them, pay the damn people!

Seriously! As tough as things are right now, people cant afford to be workin and workin for the man and not get paid and then after putting in the work, you gotta fight and huff and haul with the man about being paid.

We all know how heated we get if for some reason our paycheck is late or our employer shortchanged us...so two years of not getting monies owed for work paid is just ridiculous.

No one wants their power off nah for sure, but in these times more and more employee groups feel thats what they have to do to get what they want or deserve so...

Seriously! As tough as things are right now, people cant afford to be workin and workin for the man and not get paid and then after putting in the work, you gotta fight and huff and haul with the man about being paid.
We all know how heated we get if for some reason our paycheck is late or our employer shortchanged us...so two years of not getting monies owed for work paid is just ridiculous.
No one wants their power off nah for sure, but in these times more and more employee groups feel thats what they have to do to get what they want or deserve so...

Get real...
Every year BEC boys strike and go on go slow...and every year they get..BIG TIME!
:taped:

Fact is, they have just as much to argue with the Govt than they do with the corporation running it?
Aren't they Quasi-Government?

LOOK...Every year BEC threatens and do dumb crap to our power...every year it works and they get their money. I think this oen is to do with the hike in power prices.
I could be wrong...
BEC boys gatta stop!
:taped:

ONLY SO MANY TIMES ONE CAN CRY WOLF!

Get real...
Every year BEC boys strike and go on go slow...and every year they get..BIG TIME!
:taped:
Fact is, they have just as much to argue with the Govt than they do with the corporation running it?
Aren't they Quasi-Government?
LOOK...Every year BEC threatens and do dumb crap to our power...every year it works and they get their money. I think this oen is to do with the hike in power prices.
I could be wrong...
BEC boys gatta stop!
:taped:
ONLY SO MANY TIMES ONE CAN CRY WOLF!

lol..I feel ya pain bro! :cry: I'm just saying that if employee groups feel that withdrawing labour or jacking stuff up will get them what they want..then thats what they will continue to do.

Seriously! As tough as things are right now, people cant afford to be workin and workin for the man and not get paid and then after putting in the work, you gotta fight and huff and haul with the man about being paid.
We all know how heated we get if for some reason our paycheck is late or our employer shortchanged us...so two years of not getting monies owed for work paid is just ridiculous.
No one wants their power off nah for sure, but in these times more and more employee groups feel thats what they have to do to get what they want or deserve so...

and to this I ask...with what money...where will we get it from...where?

and to this I ask...with what money...where will we get it from...where?

lol...Well chile if you are asking how we will pay the money and be fiscally prudent at the same time, then thats one thing. But if you asking whether the government will eventually pay them so as to kill da noise, then the answer I suppose, is yes.

We Bahamians ya know...Bahamians are expert at crying poor mouth and broke, then the next week you see them in Miami with the mini-van loaded, walking down the isles in Walmart with two trolleys one time..so though the government says it might not have the money..it will find it.

Just ask the public service and the teachers.

lol...Well chile if you are asking how we will pay the money and be fiscally prudent at the same time, then thats one thing. But if you asking whether the government will eventually pay them so as to kill da noise, then the answer I suppose, is yes.
We Bahamians ya know...Bahamians are expert at crying poor mouth and broke, then the next week you see them in Miami with the mini-van loaded, walking down the isles in Walmart with two trolleys one time..so though the government says it might not have the money..it will find it.
Just ask the public service and the teachers.


Bahamians are never every truly broke.
If we look hard, there is allways one lil sumtin we gat on da side dat cud get us a 20 or 50 here and there.
:shhh:

Bahamians are never every truly broke.
If we look hard, there is allways one lil sumtin we gat on da side dat cud get us a 20 or 50 here and there.
:shhh:

Boy! We are horrible money managers though boy, and we LOVE the debt mentality. Going to the bank to borrow couple g's just to buy clothes in Miami, or going to the bank to get a demonically expensive livingroom or bedroom set to impress people who in just as much debt as you and more.

Oh and dont forget buying these cars locally with a down payment and monthly payment that darn near matches that of a "low cost" home..or how bout the always amusing escalade parked in front of a shack for a house?

Sure you den pick up da cutie cuz you ridin soft, but how your gern take her back to the crib bro???? :cutie: Pardon my digression from the topic at hand! lol

lol...Well chile if you are asking how we will pay the money and be fiscally prudent at the same time, then thats one thing. But if you asking whether the government will eventually pay them so as to kill da noise, then the answer I suppose, is yes.
We Bahamians ya know...Bahamians are expert at crying poor mouth and broke, then the next week you see them in Miami with the mini-van loaded, walking down the isles in Walmart with two trolleys one time..so though the government says it might not have the money..it will find it.
Just ask the public service and the teachers.
Maybe if heads where to roll for negligence, they won't take so lomg long to resolve the next negotiation,hence owing the workers these enormous sums in retroactive pay.Its from the peoples purse these sums must come,not from some minister or managers pockets.

lol...Well chile if you are asking how we will pay the money and be fiscally prudent at the same time, then thats one thing. But if you asking whether the government will eventually pay them so as to kill da noise, then the answer I suppose, is yes.
We Bahamians ya know...Bahamians are expert at crying poor mouth and broke, then the next week you see them in Miami with the mini-van loaded, walking down the isles in Walmart with two trolleys one time..so though the government says it might not have the money..it will find it.
Just ask the public service and the teachers.

that doesnt mean we have it...

from the gov't perspective...that means were borrowing...for our children (future taxpayers) to pay off


or for those walmart late-night creepers...they are living above their means and are debt-financing their Miami experience...and you wonder why people cant pay their bills...its because they (we) have our priorities wrong...the lady that writes the coloumn in the Punch and glenn ferguson and his long windedness comes to mind here...we need to take a lesson!

for young people like me I reccommend zero debt by lynette khalfani...the michelle singletary book 7 money mantras or suze orman's Young Fabulous and Broke or Glinda Bridgeforth's Girl get your money straight or Girl make your money grow!


its all an illusion...you thinks its their but its not in YOUR REALITY...or is that a mirage? but I guess if enough people believe the lies then I guess...

Bahamians are never every truly broke.
If we look hard, there is allways one lil sumtin we gat on da side dat cud get us a 20 or 50 here and there.
:shhh:

well I am! all my money is tied up and I m saving for my Eurpoean ascension...Im trying to get somewhere not buy no damn outfit or shop till I drop!

Maybe if heads where to roll for negligence, they won't take so lomg long to resolve the next negotiation,hence owing the workers these enormous sums in retroactive pay.Its from the peoples purse these sums must come,not from some minister or managers pockets.

You so right my brutha!