{"id":249513,"date":"2006-04-30T13:38:33","date_gmt":"2006-04-30T17:38:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2006\/04\/small-business-forum-planned"},"modified":"2006-04-30T13:38:33","modified_gmt":"2006-04-30T17:38:33","slug":"small-business-forum-planned","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2006\/04\/small-business-forum-planned","title":{"rendered":"Small Business Forum Planned"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><P>The Ministry of Financial Services and Investments and Bahamas Agricultural and Industrial Corporation (BAIC) have announced that the second Small Business Forum and Trade Show will be held from May 4-6 at the College of the Bahamas (COB).<\/P><\/p>\n<p><P>The forum will give small businesses in the Bahamas the opportunity to express their concerns in a workshop where models of successful companies will be highlighted.<\/P><\/p>\n<p><P>Opportunities and problems identified by Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) will be addressed, with possible solutions to these matters recommended by the relevant stakeholders.<\/P><\/p>\n<p><P>This activity will involve several guest presenters, as well as Bahamian experts in the small business sector.<\/P><\/p>\n<p><P>*Topics to be discussed include: The future of small businesses in the Bahamas; the importance of timely record keeping;, creating a vibrant and sustainable small manufacturing sector; agriculture and its role in the Bahamas economy; constraints to market access for small businesses: the role of the Venture Capital Fund; lessons from successful entrepreneurs; the commercial banks and the role they play; and how to create and grow a successful agribusiness.<\/P><\/p>\n<p><P><SMALL>Source: The Tribune<\/SMALL><\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Second Small Business Forum and Trade Show will be held from May 4-6 at the College of the Bahamas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"facebook_10223285771444175_51037792744":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-249513","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-headlines"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249513","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=249513"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249513\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=249513"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=249513"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=249513"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}