{"id":29396,"date":"2012-12-17T09:00:33","date_gmt":"2012-12-17T14:00:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/?p=29396"},"modified":"2012-12-17T09:27:13","modified_gmt":"2012-12-17T14:27:13","slug":"call-for-bec-to-accurately-assess-bills","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2012\/12\/call-for-bec-to-accurately-assess-bills","title":{"rendered":"Call For BEC To Accurately Assess Bills"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1263 alignleft\" title=\"bec\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/bec.jpg\" alt=\"BEC logo\" width=\"132\" height=\"147\" \/><\/p>\n<p>MICAL MP V Alfred Gray charged that estimates used to calculate electricity bills at the Bahamas Electricity Corporation were unfair and detrimental to the less fortunate.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Gray called on BEC to conduct meter-readings instead of estimates, which he felt did not accurately represent electricity use.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBEC has an obligation to ensure that these meter-readings are accurate,\u201d Mr Gray said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am sick to the stomach because not only is my bill high but every island in my constituency, the electricity bill is totally out of control.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Speaking in the House of Assembly on Wednesday, Mr Gray said he was not convinced that electricity monitors were being consistently monitored.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI do not believe that these meters are being read.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cBEC has an obligation to ensure that these meter-readings are accurate,\u201d said MP V Alfred Gray stating that  Bahamas Electricity Corporation (BEC) estimates were unfair and detrimental to the less fortunate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","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":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29396","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29396","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\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29396"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29396\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29396"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29396"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29396"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}