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The Government was yesterday urged to establish a private sector-managed National Procurement Bureau as an alternative to across-the-board spending cuts, a well-known doctor suggesting it could save taxpayers up to $200 million per year.
A group of Indian investors have committed to developing “at least” a 50 Mega Watt (MW) waste-to-energy plant, that nation’s Honorary Consul to the Bahamas said yesterday.
The Copyright Royalties Tribunal’s chairman yesterday said the issue of outstanding payments owed to foreign rights holders would “not be outstanding for very much longer”, with Tribune Business obtaining documents showing his predecessor sought to use URCA to “pressure” Cable Bahamas over the issue.
Atlantis injected roughly $132 million directly into the Bahamian economy last year through the procurement of goods and services, Brookfield Hospitality’s president and managing director said yesterday
The Government was yesterday accused of “stalling for time” over its energy sector reform policies, a former Cabinet Minister arguing it was faced with either privatising the Bahamas Electricity Corporation (BEC) or increasing its rates.
A Value-Added Tax (VAT) will not succeed without the banks driving Bahamians to a ‘cashless’ society, a leading businessman warned yesterday, adding that reforms would be “a disaster” unless accompanied by “ruthless” enforcement.
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The Bahamian stock market will generate a minimum 10 per cent return for investors in 2013, a leading investment banker said yesterday, adding that some listed equities had seen “significant price increases” of up to 69.5 per cent year-over-year.
The Bahamas must “disabuse itself” of the mindset that it can meet all the financial services industry’s labour needs internally, a top QC suggesting that “hundreds, if not thousands” of jobs would be created if the sector’s GDP contribution increased just 3-4 per cent.
THE Caves Heights development has generated $5-$6 million from condo sales in January alone, its vice-president of sales and marketing yesterday telling Tribune Business the oceanfront development was aiming to double last year’s performance.
The Government and private sector were yesterday urged to “emulate” Freeport’s bonded goods practices as a model for implementing Value-Added Tax (VAT) throughout the rest of the Bahamas, a well-known QC describing the city as a reform “pacesetter”.
Wall Street yesterday described the Government’s plan to introduce Value-Added Tax (VAT) by 2014 as “a good first step” to tackling the Bahamas’ fiscal woes, given that it could have “dragged out” much-needed reforms.
A leading small business consultant yesterday called for more incentives to foster Family Island development, telling Tribune Business that New Providence had “maxed out” and a population shift off at least 80,000 was needed.
A top banker yesterday said no evidence had yet emerged to suggest that Bahamas-based commercial banks or their customers had suffered a “major fraud” as a result of any external link of their credit card details.
THE KALIK beer brand is continuing to grow off a strong 2012 performance, Commonwealth Brewery’s managing director said yesterday, adding that it maintains a strong market foothold after 25 years.
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The Grand Bahama Chamber of Commerce’s newly-inducted Board of Directors hope their tenure will act as a catalyst for the change that is “desperately needed” on the island.
The Ministry of Financial Services yesterday said it had joined forces with industry regulators to launch a survey that will assess the financial services sector’s readiness for the Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act (FATCA).
Homeowners at the controversy-plagued Oceania Heights project are demanding that the developers repay them a collective $6.95 million, although one yesterday said he expected an offer of nothing better than “50 cents on the dollar”.
City Markets failed to hold its advertised shareholder meeting yesterday after the Securities Commission blocked the now-defunct supermarket chain from doing so, Tribune Business can reveal.
A leading QC yesterday urged the Government to comply with the US Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act (FATCA) by negotiating a “hybrid agreement best suited to our national interests”, while warning that it would be “very dangerous” for the Bahamas if Europe adopted the same approach.
The Bahamas’ International Arbitration Centre ambitions have “no real prospect of being successful” unless this nation adopts a “smart” Immigration policy that allows parties to bring in their own, foreign attorneys, a leading QC warned yesterday.
Despite the Bahamas enjoying $1.5 billion in foreign direct investment (FDI) inflows in 2012, a Cabinet Minister yesterday said very little of this had trickled down to small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) over the years.
BAHAMIAN manufacturers yesterday said they were uncertain about what the implementation of a Value Added Tax (VAT) system would mean for the ssector, telling Tribune Business it still needed protection.