'Multi-million souvenir sector remains possible

Sun, Mar 6th 2011, 10:00 PM

By ALISON LOWE

Business Reporter

alowe@tribunemedia.net

A boom in the number of entrepreneurs making authentic Bahamian projects provides for the possibility of a "multi-million dollar souvenir industry", the Prime Minister believes.

Hubert Ingraham said he finds the growth in the number of Bahamians producing items such as straw bags and shell jewellery, which can be sold to tourists, "enormously encouraging".

The standard of the work being produced has risen in recent times in terms of both quality and availability, he noted. The Prime Minister suggested the trend is due to the continuing efforts of the Bahamas Agricultural and Industrial Corporation's (BAIC) progra ...

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