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The following press release from the Barbados Association of Professional Engineers (BAPE) makes for captivating reading.

BAPE continues to be saddened by the ad hoc approach being taken with the energy transformation process outlined in the Barbados government’s visionary BNEP.

As before, we are calling for a national master plan to be drawn up; for clear leadership of the transformation initiative; and for transparent communication with the public on the project’s progress.

This latest tinkering with legislation appears to be a case of clutching at straws, and a petty response to major concerns being raised by the group of intervenors on planned billion dollar investments in battery storage – to be paid for by customers, whatever the outcome.

Trevor Browne 

BAPE 

28 Sept 2024

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14 responses to “Barbados Association of Professional Engineers – ‘Yet another waste of time’”

  1. David Avatar
    David

    BAPE’s March comment on the proposed Electric Bill.

    https://bape.org/bapespeaks.php

  2. David Avatar
    David

    It is amazing to scan the media in recent days and there is no sustained reporting on the impact of the Electric Bill 2024 or matters related to the impact high energy cost will have on the economy. We are happy to discuss tint, DLP and Cardi B.

  3. 555dubstreet Avatar
    555dubstreet

    The world chatter on http://WWW.worldnewsfeed.net is about Mia the Conquering Lion versus Netanyahu of Racist Apartheid Warmongering Israel speeches in UN while Israel wars in Palestine Lebanon Yemen with US and UK weapons of mass destruction and dirty propaganda weapons of mass distraction. White mainstream media ain’t saying shit.

    🇧🇧 vs 🇮🇱 Info wars
    No one has got balls big enough to call Mia antisemetic
    Sales of Barbados flags are rising in Africa

    Time to boycott Israel and it’s trading partners like USA and UK who are complicit in genocide

  4. David Avatar
    David

    https://www.youtube.com/live/sg5cDkTJy6A?si=xGrgDvdd740Nuk_g

  5. David Avatar
    David

    No surprise, the government is moving full steam ahead to move the Bill to Act.

  6. David Avatar
    David

    https://youtu.be/o60drND-67Y

  7. David Avatar
    David

    https://youtu.be/Ri2-P2rmXYc

  8. David Avatar
    David

    The move is not unexpected.

    Six more months

    Government extends ease on electricity bills

    GOVERNMENT HAS GIVEN BARBADIANS another six months of ease on their electricity bills.

    During debate on the

    Electricity Supply Bill, 2024, in the House of Assembly yesterday, Minister in the Ministry of Finance Ryan Straughn announced that the relief which started almost two years ago will continue until the end of Government’s financial year.

    Prime Minister and Minister of Finance Mia Amor Mottley had announced during the Financial Statement and Budgetary Proposals in March that her administration would “continue to support the relief of electricity bills as we have done for the past 18 months”.

    As such, from April 1 until September 30, the VAT (value added tax) reduction on electricity bills was extended where residential customers only pay 7.5 per cent VAT on the first 250 kilowatt-hours of electricity instead of the usual 17.5 per cent.

    Straughn said this will continue.

    Relief

    “The Government of Barbados will be extending that relief, which expires today, until March 31 of 2025 as this Government’s way of bringing further relief . . . to the people of this country.”

    This, he added, has been done “specifically over the course of the last year and a half or so, almost two years . . . as a mechanism to allow for every household in this country to be able to see their way through as best we can”.

    Opposition Leader Ralph Thorne, who voiced his opposition to the Electricity Supply Bill, 2024, earlier told the House that electricity bills were a major source of hardship for many Barbadians.

    “I will oppose it . . . because this Government has not given any assurance to the people of this country, the poor people, the middle class people and the rich people, that their electricity costs will be lowered.”

    Speaking in the post-lunch session, Straughn said that “the Honourable Leader of the Opposition should understand that within the context of a fiscal framework that we have had to rescue from the total mismanagement of the Democratic Labour Party, that we continue, where appropriate, to make sure that we right-size the budget to accommodate . . . how we will allow Bajans in this country to be able to face a better day.

    Policy environment

    “Now, of course, you would think that the way the Honourable Member spoke about light bills, as if somehow light bills just appeared from May of 2018; that’s what he may have the public to believe. Therefore, the policy environment within which you implement as a Government has a direct impact on cost, and it is something that we have been working with stakeholders to make sure that we can deliver and it’s something . . . that we will continue to work with.”

    Straughn also reaffirmed Government’s commitment to continuing the programme of rewiring and upgrading the electrical systems in all of Government’s housing estates which started in 2019, was paused during the COVID-19 pandemic and resumed in 2021.

    Noting there was some success with the programme which aims to “bring up to code the electricity systems”, he said there were “some challenges with the global supply chain” and because of those issues, “the meters that we want to acquire we’ve had a little bit of a challenge”.

    Despite that, he said Government was working with stakeholders to bring the project to a close.

    Source: Nation

    Source: Nation

  9. David Avatar
    David

    https://barbadosunderground.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/BT-BLP-850×480.png

  10. William Skinner Avatar
    William Skinner

    The comedy never stops ;
    1. We want to brag about cyber safety but we reject Niel Harper, a world recognised Bajan expert on Cyber Security advice.
    2. We want to be energy sufficient but ignore Trevor Browne,( Barbados Association Professional Engineers )
    And then we come here wondering why highly qualified Bajans in the Diaspora choose to remain where their are ……………………

  11. William Skinner Avatar
    William Skinner

    where “they” are.

  12. David Avatar
    David

    @William

    You must be fully aware who is Niel’s father?

  13. Cuhdear Bajan Avatar
    Cuhdear Bajan

    No.
    Who?

  14. Bush Tea Avatar
    Bush Tea

    @ Cuhdear
    Wait!, …you name William?
    LOL
    ha ha ha

    BTW @David
    So who is Browne’s father?
    …and who is Caswell’s?

    It looks like if the answer is “a Bajan”, …then our politicians HAVE to ignore such advice, for fear that it makes the politician look as dumb as they ACTUALLY are…

    Apparently, the politically CORRECT thing for Niel to do, is to quietly feed information to the politicians – and make himself available to have the appropriate strings attached to his donkey, so that he can be led around as such…
    Listen to Brass tacks on ANY day and you will quickly understand the concept of ‘political correctness’ -Brassbados style.

    Thankfully, there are still a few Bajans who CANNOT be converted to poppets…

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