FREEPORT - Robert Reiss, president of the Bahamas Society of Engineers, said the organisation is very happy about the number of construction projects taking place in New Providence at the moment.

"We have been thrilled - a lot are civil infrastructure government projects and some of them are private," he told The Tribune during a BSE meeting in Freeport on Friday.

Mr Reiss noted that the Bahamas Contractors Association had been agitating for more projects just before the prime minister returned from China last year with $400 million set aside for local contractors under the Baha Mar development.

"We are  ...

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