BREAKING NEWS: BPL UNION PRESIDENT KYLE WILSON TAKES HOME $265K IN OVERTIME—THREE EMPLOYEES COLLECT A STAGGERING $601K!

Kyle Wilson’s reported overtime was nearly 3.4 times his listed base pay, according to explosive payroll images now raising serious questions

By The Bahamas Herald Newsroom
August 13, 2026

NASSAU, THE BAHAMAS — For most Bahamians, Christmas week means food, family and a little rest.

But a cropped work record attributed to Bahamas Electrical Workers Union president Kyle Wilson appears to tell a jaw-dropping story: 18 hours on Christmas Day, followed by three consecutive 24-hour entries.

That adds up to an astonishing 90 hours within a 96-hour period.

And that is only part of the overtime bombshell.

Payroll images obtained by The Bahamas Herald appear to list Wilson as receiving B$265,551.83 in overtime alonebetween May 2025 and April 2026. Because the Bahamian dollar is fixed at parity with the US dollar, that is nominally equivalent to US$265,551.83.

A separate spreadsheet lists Wilson’s base pay as B$78,388.20 and paid overtime as B$265,551.81—nearly 3.4 times his listed salary.

Put the two figures together, and Wilson’s base pay and reported overtime would total approximately B$343,940 before any other benefits, allowances or deductions.

More overtime than two colleagues

Another image, titled “Total Paid Overtime to 3 Fuel & Performance Employees,” lists three workers as receiving a combined B$601,295.16 in overtime during the 12 months.

Wilson’s reported share—more than B$265,000—was the largest amount on the list and represented approximately 44 percent of the combined overtime paid to the three employees.

The records contain a two-cent discrepancy: one gives Wilson’s overtime as B$265,551.83, while the spreadsheet displays B$265,551.81.

The difference may be tiny, but the total is anything but.

The Christmas-week mystery

The most startling image is a cropped handwritten work sheet attributed to Wilson by the source who supplied it.

It appears to record:

18 hours on December 25
24 hours on December 26
24 hours on December 27
24 hours on December 28

If those figures represent actual hours worked, Wilson would have been on the clock for all but six hours across four consecutive days.

The sheet contains handwritten references to pumping fuel and bears what appears to be an employee signature. However, the employee’s printed name is not visible in the cropped image, and the department-head approval line shown at the bottom appears blank.

The record does not explain whether the entries represent continuous active work, standby time, emergency call-outs, holiday premiums, overlapping payroll categories or some other method of calculating compensation.

Bahamians deserve answers

The eye-popping figures leave several questions demanding answers:

Who authorized the reported Christmas-week hours? How could three consecutive 24-hour entries be recorded? Were the payments independently reviewed? And what controls govern overtime at the country’s electricity provider?

Wilson’s position as president of the Bahamas Electrical Workers Union is supported by public records. BPL identified him in that role in a December 2025 company release, while The Tribune reported that he secured a third term in February 2026.

The Central Bank of The Bahamas confirms that the Bahamian dollar is maintained at one-to-one parity with the US dollar.

The images have not yet been independently authenticated, and the cropped records alone do not establish wrongdoing by Wilson or any BPL official. Wilson and BPL should be given an opportunity to verify the records, explain the calculations and respond fully before publication.

But if the figures are confirmed, Bahamians will want to know how one employee accumulated more than a quarter-million dollars in overtime—and how 90 hours were reportedly logged during a four-day Christmas stretch.

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