Free Electricity Connection Not For All

A long time ago electricity was a rumour in most households. For most kids growing up in the 80s all they wanted was to one day own a house with electricity.

While this would seem a low-level ambition it was a reality which most of us aspired for.

I told this to my kids the other day and they tongue-in-cheek told me such ambitions should be buried deep in the archives of regrettable aspirations. But they don’t know our struggles. Most of their ambitions are pegged around owning Ferraris, beach houses and aircrafts - things which most of us battle-scarred beings know are reserved for fiction and Hollywood.

Editor's Comment
BDP primaries leave a lot to be desired

The BDP as a party known to have ample resources has always held its primaries well in time, but this time around that was not the case. The first leg of the primaries was held last weekend, with the final leg being billed for the coming weekend. This time around, the BDP failed to shine in its primary elections. The elections were chaotic; most if not all polling stations didn't open at the specified time of 6am. Loyal BDP members braved the...

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