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service committed to improving the ease of doing business
with the Government. And, shortly after coming to office,
we followed through on that commitment with the
establishment of a private sector led Committee to develop
recommendations for improvements in the ease of doing
business in this country.
As a key element of that initiative, the Ministry of
Finance formed a cross-agency committee to examine how to
make the business license application process faster, easier
and more efficient. The committee consisted of representatives from
Finance and the major government agencies responsible for
issuing approvals required to open a business, that is, the
Department of Physical Planning, the Ministry of Works, the
Department of Environmental Health Services and the Royal
Bahamas Police Force.
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