Access Accelerator and Royal Caribbean Group launch funding programme for small businesses ewnews.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from ewnews.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Royal Caribbean exec: Homeporting will help reinvigorate Bahamian economy
NASSAU, BAHAMAS Calling homeporting a “win-win” for the country, president of the Bahamas Hotel and Tourism Association Robert “Sandy” Sands this week lauded the potential of Royal Caribbean’s plans to homeport in Nassau this summer.
Sands declared it would boost airlift, help fill hotel rooms and provide opportunities for professional services, jobs, vendors and an uptick to a comeback economy.
“We welcome homeporting; this is very good news for The Bahamas,” said Sands, who was speaking on the inaugural ZNS-TV and radio show Direct Talk with host David G Wallace.
Latest SBDC grant round injects $569,000 into businesses Small Business Development Center Executive Director Davinia Grant. AHVIA J. CAMPBELL
The Access Accelerator Small Business Development Centre’s most recent standalone grant program pumped more than $500,000 into 129 small businesses, the Access Accelerator noted in a press statement, adding that the full program has helped to support more than 2,000 jobs.
This third round of grants, the Access Accelerator stated, totaled $569,000 and brings the amount given to small businesses over the life of the program to $2.3 million across 549 businesses.
“The Standalone Grant Program gives small business owners access to up to $5,000 in grant funding,” the statement revealed.
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The political cannibalism in the FNM has historical precedent in the Pindling and Ingraham govts
Dear Editor,
In the lead up to the 2012 general election which would prove to be then Prime Minister Hubert Ingraham’s last as leader of the Free National Movement (FNM) former Grand Bahama Chamber of Commerce President Peter Turnquest was a rising political star, having allegedly been courted by both the FNM and the Progressive Liberal Party (PLP).
Nine years later, Turnquest is now being unceremoniously treated like the black sheep of the FNM family, amid rumors circulating in the The Tribune and
The Nassau Guardian dailies that he and Prime Minister Dr. Hubert Minnis’ relationship is strained.