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Business Excellence Awards

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.

Slow changes

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Its the middle of the years and really we are slowly sweeping into the end of 2014. What has happened so far in Grand Bahama? Well the truth is, if you want to be negative it's really easy and you can say nothing. To be realistic and positive there has been some small but steady changes. In the world of real estate, there has been some small pockets of great fortune as things change. This is one of the indicators of an economy - real estate. Another indicator is construction and although we have not seen a lot of construction going on at present some has picked up. We are still waiting for such projects as the sale of a major hotel or the building of the one projected for out East, but what about the smaller enterprises that you can work on just for you that can work itself into hiring others? What about the incubators? Grand Bahama will do well with an incubator for small businesses. This is a dream of mine and my daughters' ... to start an incubator. It's