{"id":246896,"date":"2005-04-28T12:20:31","date_gmt":"2005-04-28T16:20:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2005\/04\/bahamas-government-sure-knows-how-to-pick-em"},"modified":"2005-04-28T12:20:31","modified_gmt":"2005-04-28T16:20:31","slug":"bahamas-government-sure-knows-how-to-pick-em","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2005\/04\/bahamas-government-sure-knows-how-to-pick-em","title":{"rendered":"Bahamas Government Sure Knows How To Pick &#8216;Em"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><P>The company awarded the $22 million controversial contract to build and operate the Blue Hills reverse osmosis plant, last year, paid $313,408 in penalty fines after it failed to meet the terms of its existing contract with the Water &#038; Sewerage Corporation. <\/P><\/p>\n<p><P>In its form 10-K filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), Consolidated Water said &#8220;various equipment failures and operational problems&#8221; at its Windsor reverse osmosis plant prevented its Waterfields Company from supplying the minimum stipulated amount of water to the Water &#038; Sewerage Corporation. <\/P><\/p>\n<p><P>Consolidated Water attributed much of the problems at the Windsor plant to &#8220;some fouling of membrane elements&#8221;, which had limited water production. <\/P><\/p>\n<p><P>In addition, the company also &#8220;incurred penalties for not meeting the diesel fuel and electricity efficiencies specified in our water sale agreement. These penalties totalled $313,408 in 2004&#8221;.<\/P><\/p>\n<p><P>Nassau residents are still waiting for the Harrold Road construction project to be completed after the original contractor went bankrupt several years ago.<\/P><\/p>\n<p><P><SMALL>Source: The Tribune<\/SMALL><\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Criticism over selection process as Blue Hills plant winner fined $313,408 in 2004.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"facebook_10223285771444175_51037792744":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-246896","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-headlines"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246896","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=246896"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246896\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=246896"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=246896"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=246896"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}