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Dorian rebuild in question for 98% on tax break loss

Some 98 percent of business and home owners in Dorian-devastated Abaco say reinstating 10 percent VAT on construction services will “significantly influence” whether they rebuild or not.

90 percent of Virtual Junkanoo production team had COVID-19

YOUTH, Sports and Culture Minister Mario Bowleg revealed yesterday that 90 percent of the team contracted to produce a virtual Junkanoo show had COVID-19, which has affected the production.

923 police officers promoted this month

MORE than 920 Royal Bahamas Police Force officers of all ranks received promotions this month.

Mitchell pays tribute to ‘voice for freedom’ Tutu

FOREIGN Affairs Minister Fred Mitchell has expressed sadness at the death of anti-apartheid campaigner Archbishop Desmond Tutu.

Food prices: ‘What goes up may not come down’

Super Value’s principal has warned Bahamian shoppers to brace for the possibility that increased food prices may be here to stay, warning: “I don’t believe in what goes up must come down.”

Cost of change from playing ‘VAT politics’

The “era of Value Added Tax (VAT) politics” is making things difficult, one large food store chain executive said.

Gov’t targets property tax tripling to $400m

The Government is aiming to more-than-triple annual real property tax collections to at least $400m as a key component in its ambitions to achieve a 25 percent revenue-to-GDP ratio.

Anglicans should not canonise Bishop Tutu

South African Archbishop Desmond Tutu died on Boxing Day in Cape Town at the ripe age of 90. The recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize in 1984, Tutu, along with Nelson Mandela and FW de Klerk, was instrumental in dismantling the Apartheid system implemented by the White South African National Party, after its ascent to high office in 1948.

Tourism in ‘huge win’ on COVID test ease

Bahamian tourism was yesterday said to have secured “a huge win” after millions of dollars in visitor bookings were rescued by the Government suspending tougher COVID testing measures.

VAT change prompts hirings

Super Value will bring in new staff to help with its Value Added Tax (VAT) re-pricing for the January 1 switch to 10 percent from 12 percent.

Tourism urges Gov’t to cut 14-day quarantine

Bahamian tourism operators are urging the Government to reduce the 14-day COVID quarantine period, and bring it into line with US and UK measures, to give a further peak season boost.

Attorney fined for contempt

A Bahamian lawyer was fined $35,000 and ordered to pay an additional $20,000 in legal costs after she was found guilty of contempt of court.

HUBERT EDWARDS: Reigniting the debate on Bahamian taxation

This will be a very interesting year economically. Continued COVID-19 headwinds, the first true Budget from the new administration and, consequently, the change in “ownership” of prevailing policy positions will definitely cause a shift in perspective.

Ollen Smith looks to get Bahamian prospects in Canada prep basketball

Ollen Smith plans to use his platform at the coaching level to help facilitate the transition for Bahamian prospects to the constantly developing Canadian prep basketball scene.

Bahamian entry changes ‘more alarming’ than CDC

Bahamian tourism operators yesterday shrugged off the latest downgrade by US health authorities, arguing that constant changes in this nation’s COVID protocols are “more alarming” to visitors.

IHOP Bahamas arrival targets up to 130 jobs

A Bahamian entrepreneur yesterday revealed plans to create up to 130 local jobs by making this nation “the anchor for the whole Caribbean” with the IHOP franchise he has just secured.

Christie Gov’t incurred huge Parks, Beaches overshoot

A Cabinet minister says resolving the controversy at the Public Parks and Beaches Authority is “a high priority” with major spending overruns not confined only to the Minnis administration.

STATESIDE: Hope out of heartbreak in a country so often at odds

It’s the day before Christmas Eve and all across the land...

FRONT PORCH: In a time of despair came the hands that brought hope

In early 2020, the COVID-19 pandemic, one of the great historical pandemics, shattered then shuttered the global and national economy. International tourism came to a dramatic and unprecedented halt. Much worse than in the 2008 Great Recession, the Bahamas economy collapsed within months.

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