For some business owners on New Providence, the frustration from frequent power outages and load shedding has turned to anger, according to Bahamas Chamber of Commerce and Employers’ Confederation (BCCEC) Chief Executive Officer Jeffrey Beckles.

Load shedding began again in April. “Businesses are feeling the pinch. Several businesses that we’ve spoken to over the past 24 hours have talked about the amount of resources they’ve had to deploy to ensure that they are operational. Some of them are operating on 50 percent generated power. They can’t afford to wait to be told they’ll be out of power,” Beckles told Guardian Business.

“The reality of it is it’s not only having an impact on businesses, but every single Bahamian who lives in Nassau, and wherever else these facilities are, are having the same challenge. The cost of that adds up in real dollars in terms of business lost. I know that the staff of BPL are now doing their rotations in the evenings, but we still have a lot of businesses that operate in the evening and the impact of that begins to mount.

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