MP: 'Businesses are hurting'

Mon, Oct 24th 2011, 10:00 AM

ELIZABETH MP Ryan Pinder yesterday criticised the government for implementing policies that he said have hurt small to medium sized businesses and ultimately caused the Bahamas to receive negative ratings by various international agencies and institutions.

Responding to a recent report by the International Finance Corporation (IFC) on the ease of doing business in which the Bahamas ranked 85th out of 183 countries Mr Pinder said: "In the last four years, under the FNM Government, the Bahamas has fallen from an IFC ranking of 59 to an embarrassing 85th; with respect to our Latin American and Caribbean neighbours, we now ran ...

By NATARIO McKENZIE
Tribune Staff Reporter
nmckenzie@tribunemedia.net

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