With analysts saying Baha Mar accounted for 5 percent of the country’s annual GDP for the past two years, we talk with Vaughn Robert, Senior Vice President, Finance and Corporate Alliances, about Baha Mar’s economic impact, and about other recent developments with the resort.

Also, Entrepreneur Sebas Bastian and Entertainer Terez “Dynamite Daisy” Davis will be featured at an ‘Organization of Young Professionals’ event on July 18. OYP Chairman Matt Sweeting tells us Bastian and Davis will speak on “How the Young & Successful Think” and “Creating Alternative Streams of Income”, respectively. The event is set for 6-8pm at the British Colonial Hilton.

“In The News” discusses the intentional million-dollar damage to a newly-paved stretch of JFK Drive, surprising comments from FNM Leader Dr. Hubert Minnis on web shops in tony parts of his constituency, the bizarre “Nygard Takes Bahamas Back” youtube video, and local reaction to the George Zimmerman/Trayvon Martin verdict.

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