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Potential West End investors coming in 'once a month'

By NEIL HARTNELL Tribune Business Editor The owners/developers of some 500 acres at Grand Bahama's West End are bringing potential investors to inspect the site at least "once a month", Tribune Business was told yesterday, and remain optimistic they can

Potential West End investors coming in 'once a month'

By NEIL HARTNELL Tribune Business Editor The owners/developers of some 500 acres at Grand Bahama's West End are bringing potential investors to inspect the site at least "once a month", Tribune Business was told yesterday, and remain optimistic they can

ROBERTS EARNS TOP DESIGNATION

Larry Roberts, chief executive of NAI Bahamas, the commercial division of Bahamas Realty, has achieved the SIOR office designation awarded by the Society of Industrial and Office Realtors. SIOR is a Washington DC-based international organisation of more

Robin Hood chief still eyeing $5-$8m eastern build-out

By NEIL HARTNELL Tribune Business Editor Robin Hood's president is eyeing a career move into real estate development via a further $5.5-$8 million build-out of the former retailer's Prince Charles Drive site, telling Tribune Business he had "five interes

Robin Hood chief still eyeing $5-$8m eastern build-out

By NEIL HARTNELL Tribune Business Editor Robin Hood's president is eyeing a career move into real estate development via a further $5.5-$8 million build-out of the former retailer's Prince Charles Drive site, telling Tribune Business he had "five interes

Robin Hood chief still eyeing $5-$8m eastern build-out

By NEIL HARTNELL Tribune Business Editor Robin Hood's president is eyeing a career move into real estate development via a further $5.5-$8 million build-out of the former retailer's Prince Charles Drive site, telling Tribune Business he had "five interes

Kosoy, Sterling eye Hurricane Hole deal

David Kosoy’s Sterling Global Financial is in negotiations to acquire Paradise Island’s Hurricane Hole property from Atlantis’s owner, Tribune Business can reveal.

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AG’s Office: We bungled Blackbeard’s Cay appeal

The Attorney General’s Office has admitted that the Government’s appeal over the $8 million Blackbeard’s Cay project was thrown out because it was asleep on the job.

29% auto sales rise 'not true market reflection'

29% auto sales rise 'not true market reflection' By NEIL HARTNELL Tribune Business Editor The 29 per cent year-over-year new car sales increase for the first two months of 2012 is "not a true reflection" of the anemic overall market, two Bahamas Motor D

29% auto sales rise 'not true market reflection'

29% auto sales rise 'not true market reflection' By NEIL HARTNELL Tribune Business Editor The 29 per cent year-over-year new car sales increase for the first two months of 2012 is "not a true reflection" of the anemic overall market, two Bahamas Motor D

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BTC to complete Abaco cell overhaul in mid-May

THE Bahamas Telecommunications Company (BTC) is set to complete its wireless system overhaul on Abaco and the northern Bahamas by mid-May, giving customers improved cellular service, including faster speeds for downloads and browsing on smart phones.

Bank payment charges need ‘legitimate redress’

THE Central Bank yesterday appeared to concede that fees for payment services were too high and “require legitimate redress”, a view shared by 78 per cent of Bahamians.

FRAMING WEBSITES BY BETTER PLANNING

By Deidre M. Bastian This is a topic that pops up periodically, mainly because more web agencies are now incorporating a formal 'wire framing' process. Anyone who has ever built or designed a website will tell you that wire framing happens in some form o

QC ‘awaits orders’ on Blackbeard’s Cay enforcement

A well-known QC is awaiting instructions from his environmental activist clients over how to enforce the judgment they obtained against the $8 million Blackbeard’s Cay project.

$10M SOCIAL SECURITY REFORMS 'FIRST OF THEIR KIND' IN CARIBBEAN

By NEIL HARTNELL Tribune Business Editor The Bahamas' proposed $10 million social security reform initiative is a 'first-of-its-kind' in the Caribbean, as it will tie welfare payments to "improving human capital" through better educational achievement fo

Title questions raised over $3m AML deal

CITY Markets pension fund trustees have no legal standing to sell the defunct supermarket chain’s former head office to AML Foods for $3 million, it was alleged yesterday.

AML eyes $12-$15m new store sales goal

AML eyes $12-$15m new store sales goal By NEIL HARTNELL Tribune Business Editor AML Foods is targeting an annual $12-$15 million top-line boost by the third year of its proposed Solomon's "sister store" in Freeport, its chief executive telling Tribune B

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Credit union member growth expands 29%

By NEIL HARTNELL Tribune Business Editor Bahamian credit unions have outpaced commercial banks through an average total asset growth rate of 9.25 per cent over the past five years, the Central Bank's governor said yesterday, their collective membership h

NO 'OPEN DOORS' FOR $8BN-$10BN INDUSTRY

By NEIL HARTNELL Tribune Business Editor A potential $8-$10 billion industry lies beneath Bahamian waters if its development is handled correctly, a local archaeological salvage expert yesterday warning against an 'Open Doors' policy that would allow for

NO 'OPEN DOORS' FOR $8BN-$10BN INDUSTRY

By NEIL HARTNELL Tribune Business Editor A potential $8-$10 billion industry lies beneath Bahamian waters if its development is handled correctly, a local archaeological salvage expert yesterday warning against an 'Open Doors' policy that would allow for