OPPOSITION leader Philip Davis yesterday called for the immediate release of the report detailing the fires that crippled infrastructure at Bahamas Power and Light’s Clifton Pier Power Plant last year.

Mr Davis told The Tribune “heads must roll” over the power company’s management and handling of the current energy crisis, adding it was clear officials were “out of their depth”.

The BPL fire report was submitted to the government in January; however, officials have been tightlipped over details concerning when it was completed or its contents.

Mr Davis told The Tribune he no longer believed the fire report was being withheld to protect the integrity of BPL’s insurance claim, and called on the government to break its silence over the circumstances that led to last year’s fire.

OFFICIALS at Bahamas Power and Light yesterday confirmed that a police report was filed over the illegal dumping that reportedly caused an island-wide blackout.

An official confirmed the police report was filed at the Western Police Station by a security guard.

The dumping occurred within close proximity of a transmission pole, which caused volt lines to clash into each other. It led to a major fault on the transmission network on Tuesday, according to Works Minister Desmond Bannister.

He told parliament on Wednesday the incident had nothing to with BPL nor its historic generation and transmission issues.

BAHAMAS Hot Mix, the company awarded a major $20m contract to upgrade two runways at Lynden Pindling International Airport, remains locked in dispute adjudication board proceedings over contracted work in Antigua, The Tribune understands.

BHM was initially contracted in 2017 to build an airport runway and construct several new roads in the south Caribbean nation, but halted operations following a dispute.

Valued at roughly $16m, the project was financed by the United Kingdom’s Caribbean Infrastructure Partnership Fund (UKCIF), which is administered by the Caribbean Development Bank (CDB).

The Water and Sewerage Corporation (WSC) had no say in determining the winning bid for three contracts recently awarded for water supply projects on the Family Islands, Executive Chairman Adrian Gibson said yesterday.

Gibson’s comments were in response to Gregory Miller, president of Apex Underground Utilities and Construction Co. Ltd., who recently expressed disappointment after his company was unsuccessful in securing the contracts.

During a press conference at WSC’s headquarters on University Drive, Gibson said the procurement process, which follows the bid submission, was almost entirely handled by the Caribbean Development Bank (CDB), which had awarded the loan that will fund the projects.