The Nassau Guardian
Miller hits at media for revealing Jones’ BEC bill
Bahamas Electricity Corporation (BEC) Executive Chairman Leslie Miller yesterday charged that BEC customers should not be subjected to having their information in the newspapers and added that the media should “desist” from making such information public.
The Guardian asked Miller if he instructed BEC employees to reconnect the supply of Jones Communications Ltd., despite the company owing the corporation over $100,000 and being listed for disconnection.
“I told you that people come to me every day for assistance to have lights reconnected,” he said.
“I told you 95 percent are homeowners who come on a daily basis looking for assistance. I try my best to provide that assistance.
“I don’t think it is fair that [any] customer of BEC should be dragged through the newspaper.
“I think it is wrong. I think you all should stop...from doing it because I don’t think [any] of us should be subjected to it.
“Customers should not be subjected to that. In fact, I am told that some customers are going to take legal action against BEC for having their bills in the newspaper...which is wrong.
“We try to assist people as much as we can. That’s what I will continue to do.
“I will continue to assist those Bahamians who are out of light.”
Miller did not say which companies plan to take legal action against BEC though.
The Nassau Guardian revealed recently that Miller and two of his family-owned businesses owed the corporation more than $200,000.
As it relates to Jones Communications, The Guardian revealed that on May 20, a BEC manager reported to a senior manager that he instructed an employee (an assistant manager) to carry out the disconnection of the company’s power supply “per the received disconnection list”.
But according to the manager, the employee reported that moments after he executed the disconnection, the executive chairman contacted him on his personal cell phone and told him to reconnect the supply.
The manager said in the report the employee claimed that Miller cursed him and made several other “disconcerting remarks”.
When asked about the report yesterday, Miller said, “You all need to stop you know.
“It is amazing to me the foolishness that people come to me with.
“We would turn on people every single day.
“First of all, people only come to me when their lights are off. I’ve never seen any listing of BEC with anyone’s light bill. It’s none of my concern.”
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