Category: BHA News

The SMESU Trade Unit of The Bahamas Chamber of Commerce in partnership with the Caribbean Regional Negotiation Machinery (CRNM), and the Grand Bahama Chamber of Commerce recently hosted a two-day seminar to highlight the benefits and opportunities that are available to professional service providers through the European Partnership Agreement (E.P.A.). Seminars were held both in New Providence and Grand Bahama.
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The Bahamas National Trust (BNT) is looking to add to its 25 national parks, but this time around they are proposing that a marine park be established in southwest New Providence.

If approved, the park will be the first to be located in waters off New Providence.

Organizers behind the initiative, which has been dubbed the Southwest Marine Park Project, are looking to turn waters and marine life, stretching from east of Old Fort Point to south of Adelaide, into protected park land.

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A top Kerzner executive is confirming that the Atlantis Resort will retain its work permit policy, despite the tight economy — a move coming as Bahamian calls intensify for a crackdown on permit issuance.

“In every instance where a work permit is held it is because of the value that the permit holder brings to the organization,” Atlantis spokesman Ed Fields told Guardian Business. “Whether in good times or bad times, work permits are based on that philosophy [and] quite naturally it follows that in difficult economic times all positions are analyzed based on the value to the organization.
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The most serious impact of the global financial and economic crisis on the smallest Caribbean economies, including The Bahamas, has been the downturn in the tourism industry, The Bahamas’ Prime Minister Hubert Ingraham has said.
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Old Bahama Bay hotel in West End, Grand Bahama, will lay off 85 staff members tomorrow, The Nassau Guardian can confirm.
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The Grand Bahama Port Authority (GBPA) has embarked on a new project to construct a new bridge, which will carry the Grand Bahama Highway over the Lucayan Waterway.
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U.S.-based Mountain Lake Development Company (MLDC) has filed a $3 million lawsuit against Japan-based Mitsui Corporation and PriceWaterhouse Coopers (PWC) along with several other parties, claiming that the companies have refused to refund the money that was held in escrow as a deposit when it was in the running to buy the Emerald Bay development in Exuma a few months ago.
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Tourism officials in Grand Bahama are hoping that a number of initiatives launched on the island, including the hosting of several segments of the Miss Universe Pageant in August, will help to boost tourism numbers and thus the ailing economy.
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The Miss Universe 2009 contest will be held at the Atlantis Resort on Paradise Island, The Bahamas and will be televised around the world. With a world stage, The Bahamas…Continue readingBahamas on Show During Miss Universe Pageant

Prime Minister Hubert Ingraham says the most serious impact that the global financial and economic crisis has had on small Caribbean economies, like The Bahamas, has been the downturn in the tourism industry.
…Continue readingEconomic Crisis Battering Bahamas Tourism