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The first independently-owned Bahamas Telecommunications Company (BTC) retail outlet is set to open in Grand Bahama by early October, the newly-privatised carrier yesterday saying its store upgrades had already sparked “a material bump up in sales”.
The Prime Minister will next week receive the first draft of an economic development strategy, and how to execute it, a Cabinet minister yesterday saying this would enable the Bahamas to “maximise returns” from foreign direct investment (FDI).
Two executives with the Bahamas Institute of Chartered Accountants (BICA) have been elected to the Board of a Caribbean accounting organisation.
I left the last part of the headline intentionally blank, because we are all different and I did not want to try to convert you to the wrong parade. The point James Altucher made in an amazing blog the other day is that being in business is never going to be perfect either, and we need to learn to turn the downside right-side up.
NON-REVENUE water losses in New Providence account for 56 per cent of the Water and Sewerage Corporation’s supply, its general manager said yesterday, adding that system leaks were about three-four times’ the international average for a properly-run water utility.
Many Bahamian and Caribbean companies are passing up potential 35-40 per cent “raw material” cost savings, a Nassau businessman has told Tribune Business, saying the biggest challenge for his new venture is “changing people’s habits”.
A New Providence developer yesterday said he was effectively “waiting for 90 per cent” of the real estate market to “come back”, and suggested it would have benefited more if the Government had imposed “time limits” on its recent tax cuts.
The Bahamas Electricity Corporation (BEC) “falls down tremendously in applying best practices” because it does not carry out repair work on live lines, its former executive chairman questioning whether plans to introduce this by end-September had “died” with the general election.
MARIO’S Bowling and Entertainment Palace chief, Leslie Miller, said that despite earlier setbacks he expects to have the former Robin Hood store open by Christmas, telling Tribune Business: “We have to catch Christmas season.”
The Christie government was yesterday urged to “seize the initiative” and complete a deal to sell its last wholly-owned hotel to Scheck Industries, the Hotel Corporation’s former chairman describing the property’s $500,000 annual losses as “a financial millstone around our national neck”.
Prime Minister Perry Christie was elected on promises about fixing the country’s main social problems: crime and education. Any solutions for these deep-rooted dilemmas will be long-term, and changes will only appear incrementally.
THE ninth annual Abaco Business Outlook (ABO)conference is scheduled to be held on September 26 at the New Vision Ministries Centre in Marsh Harbour, Abaco.
PROVIDING incentives for businesses, and ensuring these align with World Trade Organisation (WTO) rules, must be factored into discussions over a new tax regime for The Bahamas, a leading accountant said yesterday.
Bahamas-based cporate entities have partnered to stage a national tax reform symposium, a move Sunshine Holdings chairman yesterday said will expand and deepen discussions on the issue.
THE Bahamas Electricity Corporation (BEC) is looking to slash the more than $12 million it pays annually in employee overtime by implementing a shift system, its executive chairman yesterday telling Tribune Business this currently accounted for almost one-third of payroll costs.
A Nassau businessman yesterday said his Freeport-based venture was in talks to expand into the logistics and light manufacturing sectors, moves that could more than double staff numbers and “double” the projected $10-$12 million annual sales from its already-operating distribution business.
Bahamian accountants specialising in internal theft/fraud investigations have seen a general 10-15 per cent increase in such assignments since the recession began, Tribune Business was told yesterday.
The multi-billion dollar Genting Group is assessing various “potential business opportunities” in New Providence after being heavily courted by the Christie administration, Tribune Business has been told, with the Atlantis resort said to be among the options.
The Bahamian stock market’s current position is “the most promising it’s looked for three-four years”, a leading investment banker said yesterday, recovery having started in February 2012 after the long-standing oversupply of ‘Sell’ orders was eliminated.
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New Providence hotels reported no significant impact from Tropical Storm Isaac, with executives at several major properties telling Tribune Business yesterday they saw minimal cancellations due to the storm.
BAHA MAR has seen “positive interest” in its 307 luxury residences offering thus far, a senior executive said yesterday.
Super Value’s president yesterday said his first Quality Supermarket had received “a little bonus” through tourists generating 80 per cent of sales, telling Tribune Business he expected the Cable Beach site to be “profitable from day one”.
Bahamian homeowners and businesses are unable to absorb further increases in catastrophe-related property insurance premiums, a leading insurer acknowledged yesterday, as the industry kept a wary eye on Tropical Storm Isaac’s potential impact on the US Gulf Coast.
A former state finance minister yesterday blasted as “utter rubbish” his predecessor’s assertion that the Bahamas Telecommunications Company’s (BTC) privatisation was “flawed”, and warned that “the big prize” - communications sector liberalisation - was now under threat.