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While residents in New Providence suffer from the blistering summer heat caused by BEC constant load Shedding, the FNM Government continue to play Russian roulette with the welfare of young and senior Bahamians who are vulnerable to the high summer temperatures.

It was Jr Minister Phenton Neymour who assured the Bahamians in mid-2010 that major overhaul of BEC Generators would be executed during the winter season of 2010-11 and the said maintenance only began a few days before summer officially began. Jr. Minister Neymour is now offering the excuse that the delay of the commencement of the overhauls was due to a lack of cash; this is offensive and a deplorable excuse. Thinking Bahamians expect that a caring Government would organize it priorities and would have made the necessary arrangements to insure that electricity, an essential service, was available to residents especially during the blistering summer period.