BUSINESS BRIEFS
Betty's Beach Café opens in Lahaina
Advertiser Staff and News Services
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The economic downturn didn't hold back the opening of a new Maui restaurant in Lahaina called Betty's Beach Café.
At 505 Front St., Betty's offers casual dining and Sunday breakfast, serving burgers, salads, sandwiches, pupu and a variety of local dishes.
It also features views of the Feast a Lele Luau, whose performances includes hula, Hawaiian music and fire dancers.
The cafe is open every day except Monday, from 8 a.m. to 10 p.m. The bar is open until midnight.
BAIL AGENT ALLEGEDLY KEPT CLIENTS' CASH
A Big Island bail agent has been issued a cease and desist order by the state for allegedly withholding premium payments and cash collateral deposits for her own use.Hawai'i Insurance Commissioner J.P. Schmidt issued the order for Monica Joyce Pacheco, adding that she also operated an unregistered and unlicensed bail agency under the name Big Island Bonding. The firm was not authorized by her former employer or the Hawai'i Insurance Division, the state said.
"Insurance is based on trust, and our investigation indicates that Pacheco violated this trust with her clients and their families," Schmidt said in a press statement.
ENGINEERS TO AID ISLE ENERGY INITIATIVE
The U.S. Department of Energy is assigning two people from its National Renewable Energy Laboratory to help the state with its Hawai'i Clean Energy Initiative, which has a goal of getting 70 percent of Hawai'i's energy needs from renewable resources by the year 2030.The two are Energy Laboratory senior engineers Debra Lew and Paul Norton. Lew will work with Hawai'i's utilities while Norton will work with the Energy Efficiency Branch of the Department of Business, Economic Development and Tourism.
FIFTH BAY CLINIC OPENS IN PAHOA
The Bay Clinic has opened the Women's Health Center in Pahoa to serve southern and eastern areas of the Big Island. The clinic opened earlier this month in Pahoa Village with four workers.It is the fifth site for Bay Clinic, which also operates the Pahoa Family Health Center, one of the busiest of the health network's locations. The Pahoa Family Health Center sees 1,400 patients a month.
