{"id":37222,"date":"2013-07-09T08:44:17","date_gmt":"2013-07-09T12:44:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/?p=37222"},"modified":"2013-07-09T08:44:17","modified_gmt":"2013-07-09T12:44:17","slug":"disappointment-over-contractors-course-turnout","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2013\/07\/disappointment-over-contractors-course-turnout","title":{"rendered":"Disappointment Over Contractor&#8217;s Course Turnout"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-37227\" title=\"bca-logo-contractors\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/bca-logo-contractors.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/bca-logo-contractors.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/bca-logo-contractors-150x112.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/>While the response had not been poor, the Bahamian Contractors Association\u2019s (BCA) president admitted he was a bit disappointed over how many industry participants had taken advantage of the recent contractor&#8217;s certification course.<\/p>\n<p>Confirming that the BCA was still hoping to certify at least 200 contractors, Godfrey Forbes said: \u201cWe\u2019re trying to get about 200 in total. We had talked about trying to train as many as 400 if the demand was really there.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Bahamas Technical and Vocational Institute (BTVI) and the BCA have teamed up to offer the two-week course, which began in April. The contractor certification course is part of the \u2018Strengthening of the BCA\u2019 project, made possible by a $150,000 grant from the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), plus $75,000 from the BCA.<\/p>\n<p>The programme certifies practicing contractors with the Building Contractors Level 1 and Level 3 certification.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Bahamian Contractors Association\u2019s president said that though the response was not poor, he was disappointed more industry participants had not taken advantage of the recent contractor&#8217;s certification course.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","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":[3],"tags":[153,21],"class_list":["post-37222","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","tag-business-2","tag-educational"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37222","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\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37222"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37222\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37222"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37222"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37222"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}