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May 23, 2018
Ministry of Works - Contractor's Seminar May 30

Information For Effective Private-Public Sector Interaction.

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April 13, 2024
WSC Contractor Gunned Down Off Kemp Road

NASSAU, BAHAMAS - A man contracted by the Water and Sewerage Corporation was shot and killed Friday afternoon.

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November 16, 2023
'Companies awarded contracts were not approved contractors'

A SENIOR manager of the Water and Sewerage Corporation (WSC), who claimed to be related to Adrian Gibson, testified that the companies awarded contracts to paint water tanks when Mr Gibson was executive chairman were not on the corporation's approved contractor list nor known to engineers.

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April 15, 2024
WSC contractor killed as two shot dead over weekend

TWO men were killed in New Providence and Abaco over the weekend.

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January 04, 2024
BCA president urges appointment of Contractors Board "post-haste"

NASSAU, BAHAMAS — The Bahamian Contractors Association (BCA) president is again urging the appointment of the Contractors Board "post haste," as he sees it as pivotal to overseeing the licensing and certification within the construction sector.  Leonard Sands told Eyewitness News: "We are very encouraged by the capital expenditure injection by the Ministry of Works. [...]

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May 09, 2023
Contractor for $90m prison complex named

NATIONAL Security Minister Wayne Munroe said the contractor for the new corrections and related facilities is Walker's Industries -- though the bidding process for the project remains unclear.

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April 27, 2023
Contractors associations to submit names to govt for contractors board

The contractors associations will submit their recommendations for the contractors board to government this week, and have had their suggested revisions to the Contractor's Act sent to the attorney general's office, President of the Bahamian Contractors' Association (BCA) Leonard Sands said yesterday.

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April 19, 2023
Contractors law to allow grandfathering once again under review

An amendment to the Construction Contractors Act 2016 is needed to allow contractors to be grandfathered in as licensed contractors, as the transitional period for the original grandfathering process "has been spent", Minister of Works and Utilities Alfred Sears told Guardian Business yesterday.

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February 23, 2023
BCA will begin issuing licenses to contractors, says president

The Bahamian Contractors Association (BCA) is no longer waiting for the government to issue licenses to Bahamian contractors, the association's President Leonard Sands announced yesterday. The BCA will begin to issue the licenses themselves within the next two weeks. 

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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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