Private sector 'holds breath' on Baha Mar

Tue, Sep 7th 2010, 11:00 PM

By NEIL HARTNELL

Tribune Business Editor

The $2.6 billion Baha Mar project has been likened to "a marriage where the mother-in-law does not approve of the spouse", a former Bahamas Chamber of Commerce president warning the private sector would "go into shock for six months" if both political parties failed to approve work permits for the development's 5,000 Chinese workers.

Giving his apt assessment of the Government's seeming attitude towards the Baha Mar development and its Chinese government-owned partners, the China Import-Export Bank and China State Construction, Dionisio D'Aguilar told Tribune Business that the Cable Beach project was "the only short-ter ...

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