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Sebas enters hotels with $200m project By NEIL HARTNELL Tribune Business Editor nhartnell@tribunemedia.net SEBAS Bastian’s Brickell Management Group is entering the resort industry with a 226unit condo hotel as part of a $200m western New Providence development set to create over 500 full-time jobs at completion. The gaming entrepreneur’s Venetian Village project, which is also forecast to generate up to 400 construction jobs, will be built-out over a six-year period on a 68-acre site adjacent to the Old Fort Bay Town Centre’s western boundary as well as Venetian West. Ansel Watson, Brickell Management Group’s president, told Tribune Business that the developer is aiming to break ground and start construction this year subject to receiving all the necessary government permits and approvals. With the public consultation on Venetian Village’s Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) set for March 2,
• 226-unit condo hotel is Venetian Village focal point • Project to create 500 full-time jobs; 400 construction • Brickell aiming to start sixyear build-out during 2023
A LAW firm whose principal is a newly-named Supreme Court judge has lost its bid to recover an unpaid $24,544 legal bill because it failed to properly present its evidence before the court. Gregory Moss, the former MP, who is due to assume office as a Supreme Court justice on May 1, 2023, according to a Judicial Legal and Services Commission release, represented his Moss & Associates law firm in the action before acting justice Ntshonda Tynes. Her February 9, 2023, verdict rejected Moss &
GREGORY MOSS Associates’ claim on the basis that neither the witness statement of its office manager, Vanessa Russell, nor its documentary evidence had been properly entered during trial before the Supreme Court. As a result, based on the “dearth of evidence”, acting justice Tynes found there was nothing to support the law firm’s
Ex-PM backing four lanes ‘all the way to Lyford Cay’ • Minnis: Highway from airport to cure traffic ‘disaster’ • Study: ‘Programme’ upgrade for Windsor Field Road • Calls for new and expanded roundabouts on corridor
A FORMER prime minister yesterday backed research calling for a four-lane highway to be constructed between the airport and Old Fort Bay to ease escalating traffic congestion in western New Providence. Dr Hubert Minnis, who is also the area’s MP, branded traffic flows during peak travel hours as “a disaster” while revealing to Tribune Business that his administration had been VENETIAN Village project Master Plan Concept.
New judge’s law firm loses unpaid bill fight By NEIL HARTNELL Tribune Business Editor nhartnell@tribunemedia.net
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2023, as part of the process for obtaining a Certificate of Environmental Clearance, he pledged it will have “a good impact” for the economy. “The proposed development, Venetian Village, is situated in western New Providence in the vicinity of Old Fort Bay and encompasses approximately 68 acres. Venetian Village is a
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action and that its former client’s “no case” submission had to succeed. Detailing the background to the dispute, she recorded how Moss & Associates issued a writ against Thomas & Norma Construction (T&N Construction) on November 15, 2019, in a bid to recover unpaid legal fees allegedly owed by the latter. The outstanding bills purportedly stemmed from a Supreme Court legal action the contractor
asked it to file against Yasmine Stubbs. “By its engagement letter dated the May 6, 2011, the plaintiff (Moss & Associates) indicated that the terms under which it would act for T & N included that it would be paid for legal services at the rate of $500 per hour and $5,000 per day for court appearances; that interest on unpaid invoices would be charged at the rate of
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DR HUBERT MINNIS assessing Windsor Field Road’s expansion from two lanes to a dual carriageway in both directions between Lynden Pindling
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GB Power union: ‘We’ll never give up the fight’ By NEIL HARTNELL Tribune Business Editor nhartnell@tribunemedia.net A TRADE union leader yesterday pledged to “never give up the fight” after the Court of Appeal overturned an Industrial Tribunal verdict that it won previously against Grand Bahama Power Company. Roscoe Burrows, the Commonwealth Electrical Workers Union’s (CEWU) president, told Tribune Business the union has yet to decide whether to
challenge the unanimous Court of Appeal ruling that it can become “involved” in GB Power’s decisions to terminate union members only in specific situations detailed in the two sides’ industrial agreement. “It made for an interesting read,” Mr Burrows said of the verdict. “We haven’t made a decision [on an appeal] either way as yet. It just recently came out late Friday evening. We haven’t had a chance to speak
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