Cable Beach Residents Voice Frustration Over Frequent Power Outages

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NASSAU, BAHAMAS – In the Cable Beach community, power outages have become an unwelcome part of daily life. For some businesses, generators have become just as important as the lights themselves.

Meanwhile, for those who live and work in the area, they say the interruptions are happening so often that they’ve come to expect them.

Employee at Hoffer Sports, Kinga Rahming-Morrison expresses her frustration.

Kinga Rahming-Morrison – Employee, Hoffer Sports

“The power outages been everyday, some times in the morning, two hours, some time in the afternoon, sometime when I come to work I meet the generator running. So I can’t say how often it runs in the night, but you know I guess hey welcome to summer load shedding, but it is annoying.”

However it’s not just businesses feeling the impact, residents say the outages are disrupting sleep and damaging their food supply.

Krystal Rolle – Airbnb Owner, Resident

“We all have things to do. We have work to go to. School is closed, yes I know, but you can’t get a good nights rest because why you’re up all night sweating. You can’t take a nap in peace.”

Winston Moss – Resident

“A nuisance as always, I don’t see why in this date and time we still [have] this amount of power outages. It’s been boasting of the new infrastructures put in that should eliminate all of this. I heard the minister say its growing pains. They been going through growing pains for quite some time with numerous administrations…every year it’s the same thing.”

For Craig Nixon, an employee at a local liquor store in the area says the outages are creating safety concerns.

Craig Nixon – Employee, Liquor Store

“In the day you can actually see if somebody’s coming up to you, somebody’s walking up behind you, things like that. Cutting the power off in the night is one of the dumbest things that you can do. You not only putting the businesses at a lost but your putting peoples security at risk.“

Meanwhile others like resident Ethan Goodman says he is now planning to invest in generators because he no longer feel confident the problem will be solved anytime soon.

Ethan Goodman – Resident

“More so it’s something I learn to live with, its a little sad cause we pay taxes and everything like that, [so] you would expect it to be a bit better. It already have me in my head that I already know I have to save up for a generator for something like this cause its just this is too much.”