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July 13, 2016
Construction Contractors' Bill, 2016

I am pleased today to bring to Parliament, an inaugural cutting-edge and comprehensive Construction Contractors Bill, 2016.

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September 20, 2023
Stadium getting $10 mil. overhaul

The $10 million in works underway at Thomas A. Robinson National Stadium will bring it up to standard for The Bahamas to be able to host the World Relays and CARIFTA Swim Championships next spring, Sports Minister Mario Bowleg said yesterday. The money is being used for the entire refurbishment of the stadium and the Betty Kelly-Kenning National ...
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October 08, 2010
Fears Baha Mar could drain country of workers

By NOELLE NICOLLS

Tribune Staff Reporter

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If Baha Mar drains the labour pool of Bahamian workers then contractors will be left twiddling their thumbs, according to the Bahamas Contractors Association.

Stephen Wrinkle, BCA president said the project could drain the country of workers in a "New York minute", and leave Bahamian contractors "left on the side lines." It has...

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April 21, 2010
100% Bahamian-owned $8 million Dunmore Court Development Breaks Ground

Signs of economic recovery continue with the announcement today that construction of the $8 million Dunmore Court, an all-Bahamian owned and built townhome community in western New Providence, began recently with the first homes ready for occupancy by January 2011.

According to Sidney Bethell, sales associate at Mario Carey Realty, the project is significant for several reasons.

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August 24, 2010
Local contractors fear Baha Mar will leave them without workers for other projects

By TANEKA THOMPSON

Tribune Staff Reporter

tthompson@tribunemedia.net

LOCAL contractors are worried their labour pool will be depleted when the $2.6 billion Baha Mar development begins construction and want assurances that they will be incorporated into the project alongside their workers.

According to Stephen Wrinkle, president of the Bahamian Contractors' Association, construction bosses want...

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September 23, 2010
'We're begging like children'

By NEIL HARTNELL

Tribune Business Editor

Bahamian contractors must be actively engaged on the major multi-million dollar development projects if this nation is to "grow itself to mature status", the industry's head told Tribune Business, rather than just let the sector simply be used as a labour pool by developers.

Stephen Wrinkle, the Bahamian Contractors Association's (BCA) president, said th...

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February 10, 2022
Storm contracts in question

Although much less recovery work was done on Grand Bahama than on Abaco, following Hurricane Dorian in 2019, much more money was being paid out for the work on Grand Bahama, Disaster Reconstruction Authority (DRA) Executive Chairman Alex Storr said yesterday, adding that the company in question was receiving as much as $1 million a month.

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News Article
July 03, 2019
DPM: Govt doing what it can to help smaller contractors

The government is doing what it can to expand the pool of qualified contractors that can successfully bid on large domestic and international projects, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Finance Peter Turnquest said following the controversy surrounding the awarding of contracts to Bahamas Hot Mix for a water improvement project in the Family Islands...

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August 23, 2016
Baha Mar work starts next month

CONSTRUCTION at the stalled Baha Mar resort is expected to resume in September in a move to have the $3.5 billion resort project open no later than the end of winter in 2017, Prime Minister Perry Christie announced last night.

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News Article
November 19, 2010
Rt. Hon. Hubert A. Ingraham Resolution on Baha Mar Project

I have been disappointed but not surprised by the failure of Members Opposite to recognize that my Government has made considerable and measurable progress in making lemonade from the lemons which they left on the table when they were put out of office in 2007.

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