Flipping Grand Bahama

This past week the Grand Bahama Chamber of Commerce announced plans for this year's Business Excellence Awards. It was noted that this event skipped a year but people in the community are being asked to let the Chamber know who they feel are the great business achievers this year. Here is the announcement from Sarah Kirkby, Director; Mercynth Ferguson, Director; and H. Rudy Sawyer who is a member of this committee.

On this beautiful Friday in Grand Bahama I have had a good think about what is going on in pockets around the island. While on the surface many talk about the various obstacles to business, in the background I feel the work being done. It's like the story of the seed that takes five years to grow under the ground making strong roots before anyone ever sees a shoot and then it takes off and bears fruit. The backyard farming is catching on with another young man at the helm. When I came to Grand Bahama in 2010 there was an older gentleman BAIC Deputy Chairman, Ronald Darville Sr. who was promoting this phenomena. I thought he was doing a great job and proving his worth by having a farm, tending a farm for someone else and also having a farm in his backyard. BAIC Deputy Chairman, Ronald Darville Sr. along with Mr. H. Rudy Sawyer then also of BAIC at Darville's Farm in 2011. But, he died and I wondered who could or would pick up the gauntlet. In walked this bri...