Hon Flax-Charles backs new BVIEC Chair to address issues of high electricity bills
Hon Flax-Charles was at the time adding her contribution to the debate on the motion to approve Mrs Flax as Chairperson during the First Sitting of the Second Session of the Fourth House of Assembly today, Thursday, November 14, 2019.
‘Exorbitant prices’
“She makes good choices because she chose a Virgin Gordian to be her husband,” Hon Flax-Charles joked, but added that she knows for certain Mrs Flax will look at one of the things she believes is most important to the people of the territory- the cost for electricity.
“I often hear the complaints of persons who pay exorbitant prices for electricity. I too have experienced that,” Hon Flax-Charles stated.
She explained that sometimes persons may be away from their home for a month, with just a refrigerator left running, only to return to discover that the electricity bill is the same price as the month before or even higher.
“And the excuse we always get is the fuel variation charge and nobody can tell us how that is computed. So, Mrs Flax, I know as a woman you will look into that.”
‘Fair & honest’
Businesswoman Mrs Rosemary Flax, is a former Managing Director of financial services entity Mossack Fonseca, and has over 4 decades of experience in the financial services industry, with many of those years at a managerial level.
Further expressing her support for Mrs Flax as BVIEC Board Chair, Hon Flax-Charles said she can safely say that women multi-task a lot better than men and that she is confident Mrs Flax will be able to “juggle” all of the things that the Chair of the Electricity Board calls for.
“As a mother, as a grandmother, I know that you will be fair. I know that you will not allow any type of interference, political otherwise, to cloud your judgement or to cloud your decision making process. We campaigned on being fair and being honest and I know that I can expect from you the fairness and honesty that you are well known for throughout the British Virgin Islands,” Hon Flax added.
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12 Responses to “Hon Flax-Charles backs new BVIEC Chair to address issues of high electricity bills”
The cost of fuel.... varies (see equation below)
(COST OF FUEL + MANDATORY PROFIT MARGINS + MAINTENANCE FEES FOR OVERWORKED GENERATORS) x TIME OF THE YEAR FACTOR* = HIGH ELECTRICAL BILL
*(Summertime months = x2, August Festival Week = x4, Christmas/New Year Season = x3)
You are right, it is one of the biggest rip offs that is placed on the backs on every citizen, not just for electric service, you see it at the gas {petrol} stations also. The tanks at a gas station is filled and you are paying a price per gallon, an hour or two later the news tells us the price of crude oil has increased within a hour later the price per gallon is increased. Why is that ? it is pure and simple greed.
Greedy L...... ain’t lowering nada and if he actually do only then we can’t get a raise lmao.. this is the same man who never use to pay his electricity bills and only got suspended for it but keep it on the hush though that’s a BVIEC secret