When Bahamians responded in outrage last week to comments by Yamacraw MP and Minister of Financial Services, Trade and Industry Elsworth Johnson on how Bahamas Power and Light (BPL) customers choose to spend their hard-earned money, their anger was not merely a function of discontent with the current administration. Johnson’s commentary triggered fiery backlash because it ripped at the festering wounds and battle scars of Bahamians locked in the daily fight for a better life and a claim to what’s left of the economic pie in their country. More and more Bahamians are soldiering with anxiety and depression because no matter how hard they work and regardless of their dreams and aspirations, they cannot get their head comfortably above water due to the high cost of living that leaves them living to pay bills. They are watching as the divide between the haves and the have-nots appears to widen, with desired opportunities for themselves and their children painfully out of reach.

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