The Tribune

By NATARIO McKENZIE

Tribune Business Reporter

nmckenzie@tribunemedia.net

The Bahamas Electricity Corporation’s (BEC) unions yesterday said they were “anxiously” waiting for PowerSecure to unveil its five-year business plan and take over the managememnt, one saying: “We’re trying to be patient and cordial.”

Paul Maynard, president of the Bahamas Electrical Workers Union (BEWU), which represents the corporation’s line-staff, told Tribune Business: “We are just waiting to see what  PowerSecure wants to do. Once they sit us down and say what they are going to do, we will start negotiating with them.

“People were a bit agitated. It’s the union’s job to calm them down. We believe that we are going to be able to deal with it. In the next couple of weeks it should be dealt with.”

The Bahamas Electrical Managers Union’s (BEMU) president, Clinton Minnis, told Tribune Business: “We are waiting on them to give a report, the business plan for the next five years. That information hasn’t come to us as yet and we are trying to be patient and cordial about it, but there is nothing else we can do at the moment.

“There is nothing concrete on that that we are aware of. We will see what happens by early next month and see what will be forthcoming.”

Mr Minnis added: “People are working, people are concerned as to what was not being said, but people are working and doing what they have to do. Other than that we can not really speak further to anything at this time.”

    PowerSecure was selected as the management partner for BEC in May. It signed a $900,000 transition services agreement with the Government on July 22..  Deputy Prime Minister Philip Davis said at the time that the Carolinas-based firm would finalise its business plan over the next 60 days.