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The Government was yesterday urged to delay this nation’s World Trade Organisation (WTO) accession and bring it into line with Value-Added Tax (VAT) implementation, giving the Bahamas a perfect opportunity to “align all the stars”.
Satellite Bahamas and its principals last night joined DIRECTV in filing a proposed motion to dismiss the latter’s ‘TV signal piracy’ case against them, after an unspecified sum of money was transferred to a US bank.
The Bahamian Hard Rock Cafe franchise continued operating for almost three months after its rights to use the brand were terminated, as its 38 former employees yesterday blasted its failure to give them due severance pay.
The Bahamas has the potential to establish itself as a leading arbitration hub within three-five years, an international executive said yesterday, ahead of a conference that will discuss creating a Bahamian international commercial court for the Americas.
Grand Bahama Shipyard helped Cruise Shipping Miami celebrate its 30th convention anniversary by hosting a reception for participating clients, Bahamian style.
A publicly-traded UK company has increased its equity stake in a proposed Grand Bahama-based oil recovery plant to almost 36 per cent, with the latter believing changes to its development plan will be “commercially beneficial”.
I met Pete Mitchell in a lounge that had been set up for networking during a marketing seminar in Chicago. We chatted for a while on our businesses, and the most effective tools we were using.
A newly-launched western New Providence office development has generated an “impressive” level of interest in the past two days, its broker yesterday revealing it should break ground later this year and create roughly 200 construction job.
Commonwealth Brewery yesterday attributed its almost-2 per cent sales volume decline in 2013 to a “significant increase” in beer and spirits smuggling, its chief executive warning that this was “bad” for both company and the Government.
Bank of the Bahamas International yesterday expressed confidence that “the worst” of its net losses and bad loan provisions will be behind it after 2014, following a quarter in which shareholders incurred a further $4.172 million in ‘red ink’.
A proposed $45 million Cable Beach real estate development may have some unexpected roadblocks to overcome, after senior government officials yesterday told Tribune Business its ‘approval in principle’ had been “nullified”.
Bank of the Bahamas International is exploring the consolidation of key back office functions at the former John S George head office in Palmdale, its managing director told Tribune Business yesterday.
Two Hong-Kong based Bahamian entrepreneurs are seeking to “ramp up” their rum distribution business within the next six months, as they aim to capitalise on Asia’s growing interest in premium and fine spirits.
The Bahamas is aiming to finalise its Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act (FATCA) inter-governmental agreement (IGA) with the US next week, a Cabinet minister said yesterday.
Chambers and Partners, the London-based legal services referral and ranking service, has given Graham Thompson & Company, a top ranking with a ‘BAND 1’ designation for its Bahamian and recently-opened Turks and Caicos Islands office.
For several months now, I have deliberately excluded myself from the ongoing discussions over the pending implementation of a Value-Added Tax (VAT) regime. Several years ago I wrote a four-part series on taxation options for the Bahamas, in which my conclusion was that:
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THE Bahamas saw a 15 per cent year-over-year increase in funds registered and domiciled in this nation in 2013, the Financial Services Minister said yesterday.
By NATARIO McKENZIE
THE Bahamas Chamber of Commerce and Employers Confederation (BCCEC) is finalising the formation of a committee to review the Government’s National Health Insurance (NHI) proposals, its chief executive agreeing that implementation costs were a major concern.
The Government could encourage more than $500 million in new investment by privatising the Bahamas’ healthcare infrastructure, a well-known physician arguing this model would remove “a noose around its fiscal neck”.
The Government is moving to reconfigure the Board of BISX-listed Bank of the Bahamas International, whose annual general meeting (AGM) has been delayed by the wait for directors to be named.
Bahamian healthcare costs are “considerably higher” than those for other Caribbean nations, the Tax Coalition’s co-chair describing whether the economy could absorb National Health Insurance (NHI) on top of VAT as “a big question”.
A leading debt collection agency experienced a 30-40 per cent business increase in 2013, with its principal expressing concern over the “integrity and experience” of newly-established rivals.
Businessman Franklyn Wilson has been elected as chairman of BISX-listed Focol Holdings (FOCOL) and reappointed as a director – a post he has held for 31 years.