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A former president of the Bahamas Real Estate Association’s (BREA) Grand Bahama chapter has returned to her roots by joining ERA Dupuch Real Estate.
The Securities Commission has urged attorneys to segregate their law practice from their financial and corporate services provider (FCSP) business, thus eliminating any legal privilege concerns.
A Bahamian broker/dealer and its principal have “categorically denied” they were “knowing” participants in an alleged $11 million multinational fraud, after the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) charged them with falsifying affidavits and documents.
Investors behind a $250 million project that could reduce Bahamian energy costs by up to 50 per cent are “at a total loss” as to why the Government has yet to approve it, describing their proposal’s potential economic impact as “phenomenal”.
THE Grand Bahama business community “needs to know, and know now” what Freeport’s future model will be, the island’s Chamber of Commerce president arguing that the city will “continue to die its slow, exhausting death” if the original was abandoned.
The Government’s building permit revenues under-shot projections for the 2012-2013 half-year by 43.7 per cent, the Deputy Prime Minister indicating that fees were set to increase to match service costs.
THE Bahamas Electricity Corporation (BEC) and the trade union representing its line staff once again appear on collision course, with the latter saying its members are opposed to contributing to their own pension plans and health insurance scheme.
“Significant revisions” are being sought to the Securities Commission’s draft guidelines on maintaining accounting records, with Bahamian financial providers fearing they currently place the industry “at a competitive disadvantage”.
The Government has approved a further $9.7 million subsidy for the Water & Sewerage Corporation for the 2012-2013 fiscal year, with collections from customers down 17 per cent in last year’s second half.
THE first phase of a Freeport-based hydrocarbon recovery plant will be operational by mid-2013, the Grand Bahama Port Authority’s chairman adding that Morgan Oil faced competition from two rival entities seeking to enter the business.
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Bahamasair needs an additional $11.2 million taxpayer subsidy to get it through the 2012-2013 fiscal year, the national flag carrier having seen its half-year net loss increase by 19.4 per cent year-over-year.
THE Bahamas’ communications sector has “outpaced” its current regulatory framework, a senior Bahamas Telecommunications Company (BTC) executive arguing that some rules under the current regime were “too prohibitive” and “not facilitating growth”.
The Government is aiming to create opportunities for Bahamians that will enable them “to grow beyond the Bahamas” and compete globally, a Cabinet minister has said,
A “world leader” in shipwreck salvaging, which was recently featured in a Discovery Channel documentary, is negotiating with the Government over conducting treasure-hunting exploration in Bahamian waters, it has confirmed to Tribune Business.
GRAND BAHAMA Power Company yesterday pledged to start “burning compressed natural gas by 2014”, its chief executive calling for support from the industrial sector and other Bahmian islands in a bid to raise volumes to the point where energy costs could be significantly slashed.
A Cabinet Minister yesterday sought to “clarify” the seemingly new hard-line work permit stance, telling Tribune Business it was “not a firm policy” and no final decision on it had been taken by the Government.
A Cabinet Minister yesterday told Tribune Business he “firmly believes” the City of Nassau Revitalisation Act will be extended beyond its end-June expiry, noting that to-date it had underpinned $18.8 million in tax concessions given to over $36 million in investment projects.
The total infrastructure investment in Freeport today is worth $11 billion, the Grand Bahama Port Authority’s (GBPA) chairman yesterday saying this exceeded annual Bahamian GDP and “could not be replicated.
The Government will be able to cut its annual $18 million subsidy of Grand Bahama’s tourism industry by 60 per cent through the Reef Village re-opening, a Cabinet minister yesterday describing the deal as “some stroke of genius”.
BISX-listed Consolidated Water yesterday said that for 2013 to-date its Blue Hills reverse osmosis plant had supplied the Water & Sewerage Corporation with water volumes 17 per cent above what its contract required.
The Grand Bahama Port Authority’s (GBPA) chairman yesterday suggested that if the $225 million World Mart project had been initiated with more “more modest” aspirations and size, it “would probably have been off the ground by now.”
CONSTRUCTION of a water park on that is expected to entice more cruise passengers to come off their ships is scheduled for the 2013 second quarter, according to Grand Bahama Port Authority chairman (GBPA) Ian Fair, who said the project is being spearheaded by a “seasoned operator”.
Arawak Homes’ development of Pinewood Gardens unleashed a $500 million economic impact spread over 30 years, its chairman said yesterday, telling Tribune Business that over 80 per cent of the lot sites it acquired have been built upon.
A LEADING realtor has called on the Government to be “open minded” over what it permits to be developed ay the $17.9 million Union Wharf property, telling Tribune Business that the four-acre site is key to “bringing life back to the city” and the overall revitalsation of Bay Street.