{"id":68090,"date":"2014-06-11T09:31:21","date_gmt":"2014-06-11T13:31:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/target\/many-residential-customers-owe-bec-more-than-5000"},"modified":"2014-06-11T09:31:21","modified_gmt":"2014-06-11T13:31:21","slug":"corrupt-bec-officials-allow-friends-family-to-skip-paying-their-bills","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2014\/06\/corrupt-bec-officials-allow-friends-family-to-skip-paying-their-bills","title":{"rendered":"Corrupt BEC Officials Allow Friends & Family to Skip Paying Their Bills"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"bec\"Executive Chairman of the Bahamas Electricity Corporation (BEC) Leslie Miller says there are approximately 20,000 residential consumers whose past due electricity bills are $5,000 or more.<\/p>\n

“Believe it or not, the average homeowner owes BEC in many cases in excess of $5,000,” Miller told a local paper.<\/p>\n

“This is a very, very serious problem. Our accounts receivable is in excess of $130 million. About 75 percent of that is owed by homeowners.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are going to have to reconstruct our system because we have serious problems with our cash flow.<\/p>\n

“We have problems paying our bills. We can barely afford to purchase fuel.”<\/p>\n

When asked how consumers were able to accumulate such high bills, Miller said BEC employees have given \u201cbreaks to their friends\u201d.<\/p>\n

“What has happened is that over the years there has been accumulation of friends,” he said.<\/p>\n

Click here to read the complete article at www.thenassauguardian.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Talk about a “friends & family discount”… if you know the right people at BEC, you can skip out on paying your electricity bills, while others get their power shut off if they are even 1-day late.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":33583,"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":[90,93,142,60,396],"class_list":["post-68090","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-headlines","tag-bec","tag-corruption","tag-incompetence","tag-plp","tag-politicians"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68090","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\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=68090"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68090\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33583"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68090"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68090"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68090"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}