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A former finance minister yesterday said the Government’s overdraft had come down to around $65 million, adding that its latest bond issue would not necessarily take the national debt beyond the $5 billion mark.
IF the Government chooses to act on yesterday’s ruling by the Chief Justice it could set itself up for further legal action, an attorney for several web shop oerators warned.
The Chief Justice yesterday ruled that the web shop industry had produced no “credible evidence” it would be irreparably harmed without an injunction preventing its shut-down, describing claims of ‘financial Armageddon’ as “rather hollow”.
The Coalition to Protect Clifton Bay has warned the Prime Minister it will launch Judicial Review proceedings in the Supreme Court if the Government fails to respond by Friday to its concerns over construction activity at Nygard Cay, its attorney warning: “The rule of law is at stake.”
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THE 2013 CARIFTA games generated “well over $1 million” in direct visitor spend a senior tourism official said yesterday, saying that the overall economic impact was far greater when Nassau/Paradise Island hotels were factored in.
SUPERWASH has seen business at its Prince Charles Drive laundromat rebound 20-25 per cent, its president Dionisio D’Aguilar telling Tribune Business the laundromat’s southern locations were also seeing an ‘upward trend’ in business.
TOURISM officials along with Baha Mar executives are continuing their push to get an additional 300,000 airlines seats to Nassau per year to facilitate the mega resort, director general David Johnson telling Tribune Business, “We have to make it happen’.
BAHA MAR’S luxury residences have generated “positive interest” among international buyers, a senior executive expressing confidence that the resort would meet its sales goals.
BAHAMIAN new car dealers are anticipating that this weekend’s annual new car show will help stimulate sales and buyer interest, with one dealer describing this year’s sales as being “fairly static” thus far.
THE Bahamas will be front-and-centre at the Brazil Investment Summit 2013 (BIS) which takes place April 17-18 in Sao Paulo.
AN ATTORNEY has called on the Government to move quickly to establish an aircraft registry to not only bring added business to The Bahamas but also ensure that the country meets ICAO standards for airport safety.
AML Foods Limited recorded a 26 per cent total sales increase for its fourth quarter ending January 31, 2013, during which it recorded a net profit of $1.06 million.
THE Government has released preliminary estimates showing that the Bahamian economy’s gross domestic product (GDP) expanded by 1.83 per cent based on constant prices, fuelled largely it said by increases in the construction, manufacturing, hotel and marine transport industries.
THE process of doing business in the family islands is “even more opaque” when compared to New Providence and Grand Bahama according to one attorney who said that there were limited mechanisms for governmental approvals.
A “CONCHSERVATION campaign” is set to be fully launched nearing the end of this month according to Bahamas National Trust (BNT) executive director Eric Carey, who said that there would a national dialogue on the sustainability and preservation of the Bahamian conch population.
INVESTORS behind Abaco’s Hope Town Lodge are hoping to make the boutique resort “a go-to” island destination for Bahamians, the group’s chairman telling Tribune Business, “I would like see us running at 80 or 90 per cent all year around”.
FAMILY Island business operators should be granted concessions which will allow them to upgrade their operations and satisfy the modern market according to a top private sector executive, who also said that many of the out islands lacked the “critical mass” to sustain businesses.
CO-OPERATIVES and Credit Unions could soon be subject to new legislation and the Department of Co-operative Development (DCD) will surrender its duties to the Central Bank of The Bahamas.
A NEW $6 million state-of-the-art marina is slated to open by mid-June in the heart of historic Nassau.
PRIME Minister Perry Christie said yesterday that he was “not at all happy” with the relationship that currently exists between the Government and Boston based I-Group developers, saying that the Mayaguana development project was not moving fast enough.
THE concept of developing a national plan for The Bahamas is “long overdue” a key private sector executive said, as the Caribbean Growth Forum (CGF) launched yesterday.
THE Government has set aside $20 million from this year’s budget to market the $3.5 billion Baha Mar development as part of its agreement, Prime Minister Perry Christie said yesterday, raising the issue to highlight the financial challenges The Government faces in relation to providing subsidies and concessions for the Bahamian tourism sector.
SUPER VALUE’s owner and president Rupert Roberts said that the opening of his third Quality Supermarket in the Sea Grapes Shopping Centre would create 50 jobs, telling Tribune Business that approximately $3.5 million had been invested into the store.
THE Bahamas remains challenged on providing downstream benefits from foreign direct investment (FDI) inflows, despite leading all of Latin American and the Caribbean with a gross investment ratio of 27 per cent in 2012, Investments Minister Khaalis Rolle said yesterday.