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Atlantis sale to ‘bring stability’ Union leader hopes buyer would be more focused on the hotel industry By YOURI KEMP Tribune Business Reporter ykemp@tribunemedia.net HOTEL union president Darrin Woods said Brookfield Asset Management selling the Atlantis Paradise Island resort to a reputable hotel chain would “bring stability,” to the property. Mr Woods, the Bahamas Hotel, Catering and Allied Workers Union’s (BHCAWU) chief told Tribune Business that Brookfield is an asset management company, not a hospitality driven company and because of that it led to a lot of conflicts on the property
because they didn’t understand the nature of the hospitality industry and its workers. He said: “Everything has a season and their season was to buy the property, make it whole and prepare it for a sale. “With a hotel brand coming in it can be more focused on the industry and the development to get to it to the next level. And so based on what Brookfield would have done over the years would have been to prepare the property for a buyer at the end of the day.” SEE PAGE THREE
RENEWABLES MAY BE WAY FORWARD FOR ANDROS By FAY SIMMONS Tribune Business Reporter jsimmons@tribunemedia.net NORTH Andros business owners are considering a $2.5m renewable energy plant to alleviate their electricity woes. This comes as URCA has announced an investigation of electronic communications outages in a number of islands. The North Andros community has been battling with power outages since a fire at the BPL North Andros plant in July led to widespread damage of equipment and infrastructure.
Darin Bethel, the North Andros Chamber of Commerce president, said that local business owners are looking into pooling their resources to build a solar power plant that can supplement the community’s energy’s needs. Mr Bethel said: “We are now looking at ways as a community to try and raise funds to build our own renewable energy plant. “The community should be able to provide its own power supply and to be able to source that out.” SEE PAGE FOUR
‘AMAZON’ FOR BAHAMIANS - IN TIME FOR CHRISTMAS By YOURI KEMP Tribune Business Reporter ykemp@tribunemedia.net AN ONLINE delivery provider is set to launch an e-commerce platform just in time for the upcoming Christmas season. Granville Collie, managing director of MUTRU, told Tribune Business this e-commerce platform will have all of the “hot ticket”
items that people order on a regular basis and it will be “strictly for local products”. Mr Collie said: “We will have products from multiple stores and retailers from around the country. Let’s say a customer orders a Nike shirt, we will have that available from five different stores and you choose from what is available or within SEE PAGE SIX