As with the first, the second installment of this column last week attracted a full length response from the Prime Minister Samuel Hinds which as far as I could understand pleaded with me “to help soothe anxiety about removing a historical subsidy.” I have no objection to doing so if Mr Hinds would share with me a copy of the Bosai Power Purchase Agreement and detailed information on the generation and distribution of electricity in Region 10.
Mr Hinds in his letter also cited ultra-conservative, anti-labour Margaret Thatcher’s handling of the coal industry in the seventies as a model against which to compare our 21st century Linden. As if to establish the firmness of his belief, his government then appoints two Bosai directors, Messrs Winston Brassington and Norman McLean, to investigate the Bosai-supplied electricity in Region 10, the genesis of the current unrest in that region.
Mr Hinds also reacted to my reference to the LEAP Completion Report and even sought to advise how I should “proceed to critique it.” After two weeks and despite assurances by the
