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A government minister yesterday told Tribune Business he was “extremely” concerned about the protracted legal battle that has enveloped the South Ocean resort and inhibited its potential $867 million redevelopment, telling Tribune Business yesterday that it further exacerbated the Bahamas’ “asset utilisation problem”.
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SOME tourism developments that ground to a halt in the wake of the global financial crisis may get a kick-start this year, Prime Minister Hubert Ingraham suggested.

“While foreign direct investment flows into our country have declined, there are new signs that several of the tourism related developments which stalled because of the global recession and international financial crisis are preparing to move forward this year,” said the prime minister last night.
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Investors in a $4.9 billion Bahamas-based mixed-use resort development have accused the developer of becoming “a puppet to give cover” to the refusal of the project’s financial backer to further develop the site, into which real estate investors had pumped $160 million to acquire some 195 lots.
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AIR Jamaica is to discontinue flights to the Bahamas, forcing Bahamians to travel through the United States to get to the wider Caribbean.
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A Miami-based private equity firm that specialises in luxury, beachfront resort purchases is in negotiations to acquire the development rights to the previously proposed multi-million dollar Aman resort project on Norman’s Cay in the Exumas, Tribune Business can reveal.
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Hearing “Islands in the Stream” should inspire you to do more than change your radio station. Before Dolly Parton and the Bee Gees made it the centerpiece of their pop confection, the name more readily sprang to mind as the title of Ernest Hemingway’s famous novel, parts of which he wrote while on Bimini, in the Bahamas, so inspired was he by the islands’ fishing and diving.
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The long-running legal row over the collapsed $2.6 billion joint venture between Baha Mar and Harrah’s Entertainment is not over despite a New York judge ruling against the Bahamian company.
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Baha Mar’s claim for fraud against gaming giant Harrah’s over their collapsed $2.6 billion Cable Beach joint venture has been dismissed by a New York judge because there is no evidence that the latter “knowingly intended to deceive” it over its intentions towards the project.
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A New York judge has delivered a seeming knock-out blow to Baha Mar’s legal action against Harrah’s Entertainment over their collapsed $2.6 billion Cable Beach joint venture, dismissing the developer’s breach of contract, fraud and negligent misrepresentation claims, and branding as “meritless” a key part of its case against the gaming giant.

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The suggestion of adding $10 onto ticket prices to The Bahamas and to the Caribbean is being protested by a frequent flyer to the islands, who argues the move could cripple this nation’s tourism industry further.
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