Business View Caribbean | October 2020

46 BUSINESS VIEW CARIBBEAN OCTOBER 2020 superintendents and project managers. So, it really is dependent on the economy and the location you’re working in.” “It’s fortunate that we have good people that we can rely on,” says Tunnicliff. “Here in Nassau and the islands, there are people who want to work with us that are good at all types of trades. So, we have the first pick on who’s going to work.” That dynamic came in particularly handy during the COVID-19 pandemic, when the islands were on lock-down, and workers from the U.S were either prohibited from coming to The Bahamas or had to quarantine for two weeks when they got there. “We’ve been fortunate in that we really do have the local trades for any of our projects without any help from the U.S. And as bad as the pandemic impacted us, it was also something that got us work, especially in Abaco, where people said, ‘Do you have people that are there now? Do you have management that can look at my house? Do you have someone that can get started on the job next week?’ And the answer for us was ‘Yes.’ But for a lot of other companies, and especially those out of the U.S., they couldn’t travel or get work permits.” Going forward, Arrington says that there are plans to split the company into three separate divisions – high-end custom homes, commercial work, and out-island development. “Because it takes different teams for all of them,” he shares. “I can take a commercial guy, and I can put him into high-end custom homes, but he’s not really the guy for it; it’s just a different caliber of guy that would do commercial work versus high-end custom homes, and it’s a different caliber of guy that would go out and work on an outer island. So, as we solidify our foundation with all of our accounting processes and our management and our procedures and our culture, which we spent a lot of time developing over the last two or three years, and we can see the light at the end of the tunnel, we’ll expand into those three different divisions. We’ve also got the company down in the Turks and in the next three or four