Business

Crystal Tinker opened her new business – World Tour Travel – in November 2015. While World Tour Travel is a home-based business, it operates as a fully-serviced travel agency offering airfare, hotel, car rental or cruise packages. World Tour Travel is open from Monday to Friday from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Telephone number: 699-2087.

With over a dozen years of experience in real estate throughout the Bahamas, Neil Aberle, Broker with H.G. Christie Ltd, felt it was time to design a new website especially for discerning buyers of higher-end properties in the Bahamas, and so with help from the folks at Thyme Online, Bahamas Island Estates (http://BahamasIslandEstates.com) was born.

Abaco Estate Services has posted the listing offering the Treasure Cay Resort, Marina, and Golf Course along with development properties for sale at $59 million. Ed Newell, Bahamian broker of Abaco Estates Services, articulated that, “The purchaser must be an investor or investment group that has a plan that will utilize the development areas to their maximum potential.”

A Hotel Licensing Seminar was held at the Office of the Prime Minister located in the Bahamas Government Complex on Feb. 23. Persons in attendance were representative of the Ministry of Tourism, Administrator’s Office and a cross-section of the hospitality and hotel sectors on Abaco.

Studio One had its Grand Opening late December 2015 and has continued to grow steadily. Studio One, which is the original building’s name, was once also an art studio home to one of the earliest members of the Sailing Club. Today it hosts the locally famous Hope Town Canvas as well as a bike rental and repair shop.

The Bahamas Institute of Business & Technology (Formerly known as the Success Center for Extended Studies) that has been offering Associate Degree Courses on Abaco for the last several years, donated two laptops to Mr. Ricardo Ferguson, Principal of Abaco Central High School, as an expression of gratitude for the use of the campus.

I wish to thank the recently elected Board of Directors of the Abaco Chamber of Commerce for their confidence in having elected me to serve in the capacity of President.

Like many organizations and individuals throughout the country, the minds of Bahamians are attuned to cancer awareness and making a difference.

The first "Cay Topics" meeting of 2016 took place on January 19, at Harbour's Edge restaurant in Hope Town. Janet Reingold welcomed the group, and Stepper Leboutillier introduced Aletha Langham to present the program, “A Broad in the Building Business.”

The Abaco Chamber of Commerce held its Annual General Meeting on December 1, 2015 at Bliss Coffee shop. The primary item on the agenda was the election of the board of directors. Eleven had been nominated and were elected by default as that is the required number. The new board will meet on December 19 to choose their officers from within the eleven.