{"id":33462,"date":"2013-03-26T09:18:22","date_gmt":"2013-03-26T13:18:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/?p=33462"},"modified":"2013-03-26T09:18:23","modified_gmt":"2013-03-26T13:18:23","slug":"bec-to-absorb-cost-of-carifta-electricity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2013\/03\/bec-to-absorb-cost-of-carifta-electricity","title":{"rendered":"BEC To Absorb Cost Of CARIFTA Electricity"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a> “We have a social responsibility to the people of The Bahamas and we must continue to give back in tangible ways to the community,” said Leslie Miller (PLP), MP & BEC Chairman (from The Tribune, Saturday, March 23, 2013).<\/p>\n

Since when is a public company that is reported to be on the verge of bankruptcy able to “donate” money as if it’s manna from heaven?<\/p>\n

And when did paying for a sporting event become a “social responsibility”? Or is there is a new definition of this over used phrase?<\/p>\n

This… recent article<\/a> by Dr. Alejandro Chafuen might help with defining social repsonsibility.<\/p>\n

As politicians try to find a way to make bad public policy relevant, they continue to pollute words and definitions. Professor Walter Block has written widely on this subject here<\/a>\u2026<\/p>\n

This all goes to show the National Stadium, donated by the Chinese is a major boondoggle. If the Chinese would pay the ongoing expenses, maybe that would make the stadium worthwhile. Providing the stadium and the leaving the attendant costs of maintaining it, is a huge burden for the Bahamian taxpayer.<\/p>\n

Suggesting BEC has a social responsibility to provide electricity at taxpayer expense for a sporting event is little more than melodrama.<\/p>\n

By Weblog Bahamas<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Since when is a public company that is reported to be on the verge of bankruptcy able to “donate” money?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"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":[12],"tags":[90,1097,379],"class_list":["post-33462","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-headlines","tag-bec","tag-carifta","tag-lies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33462","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33462"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33462\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33462"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33462"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33462"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}