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Govt urged: Use insurance taxes for disaster relief
The Bahamas Insurance Association’s (BIA) chairman yesterday suggested that the 3 per cent ‘premium tax’ levied on the industry be used to finance a National Disaster Recovery Fund.Emmanuel Komolafe told Tribune Business that the increased frequency,
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Politician landed webshop boss $1.5m deal
Political pressure from a former minister resulted in the award of a $1.46m computer supply contract to a web shop boss who earned a 30 percent profit margin on the deal.The revelation, by former Ministry of Finance financial secretary, Simon Wilson,
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Jury watches police video of widow as she denies killing husband
“ABSOLUTELY positively no” was Donna Vasyli’s response to a detective’s suggestion that she murdered her millionaire podiatrist husband, a jury heard yesterday after watching a video of the widow being questioned while in police custody.
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Accused was ‘watching Scandal’ on night of murder
A JURY was told yesterday that the woman who allegedly rolled over businessman Kurt McCartney in Gambier Village after he was shot was actually at home watching the television shows “Grey’s Anatomy” and “Scandal” the night of the murder.
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BPL rate increase ‘probably justified’
The Opposition’s deputy leader yesterday said an increase to Bahamas Power & Light’s (BPL) base rate was probably “justified” on a commercial basis to arrest average annual losses of $20-$30 million.
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Corporate taxation won’t ‘put two fingers up to EU’
The Bahamas does not need corporate taxation to escape its latest ‘blacklisting’, a KPMG tax expert yesterday saying: “That won’t put two fingers up to the EU.”
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PM defends $100m GFS deficit estimate
Prime Minister Perry Christie has sought to defend the Government’s $100 million deficit projection for 2016-2017, arguing that it would be “simply ludicrous and irresponsible” to suggest it was trying to fool Bahamians about the country’s fiscal position
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Pinder: Sue for $13m over ‘Bahamas papers’
A former financial services minister yesterday suggested that this nation sue to recover the $13 million in Companies Registry search fees owed by the international journalists’ group responsible for the ‘Bahamas papers leak’.
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Crawfish season “promising” thanks to Defence Force
ALTHOUGH it is only 11 days into the 2016/2017 crawfish season, preliminary indications suggest that “things are looking promising”, according to Bahamas Commercial Fishers Alliance (BCFA) vice-president Keith Carroll.
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The referendum on gambling
No one is going to suggest to me to vote for and by my vote support people who for years have broken the laws of The Bahamas. I do care how many hundreds of thousands they gave to political parties and away to this and that.
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Police say murder details ‘indicate domestic dispute with Bahamian’
POLICE have no information to suggest that a member or members of the Chinese community were involved in the country’s 88th homicide for the year, The Tribune was told yesterday.
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Raise limit on small claims
EDITOR, The TribuneDOES anyone in this country owe you a small amount of money and refuses to pay?Yes? No? And if “yes” what can you do about it?I have a suggestion: why don’t you conscript their appearance in small claims court so that you can sue t
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A different take on democracy
It is the Christmas season and my favourite time – new year– is approaching. It is a time of reflection and improvement. Some improve their home by repairs, painting and decorations. Some improve themselves by being generous and making new year resolutions. In this vein I suggest an improvement for the Bahamas’ political system which is a representative democracy.
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Bahamian island hits the jackpot
THE purchase of a Bahamian private island was among the uses suggested for the $559.7 million won in the US Powerball Jackpot.In an ‘NBC Nightly News with Lester Holt’ segment that aired on January 3 about the Powerball Jackpot, reporter Joe Fryer ha
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GB airport back in operation next month
Grand Bahama International Airport is set to welcome its first international commercial flight - post Hurricane Dorian - on November 15.
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Former FNM Cabinet ministers were deprived of $44,000 in salaries
Former Prime Minister Dr Hubert Minnis must now be deeply regretting his decision to call for a general election eight months before it was constitutionally scheduled, with the gradual decrease in COVID-19 infections and the uptick in tourist arrivals in Nassau.
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Downtown jeweller tight-lipped over closure claims
A PROMINENT Bay Street jewellery retailer was yesterday tight-lipped on suggestions it is closing down with the loss of around 12 jobs.
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‘Gibson owes judges apology for comment’
NATIONAL Security Minister Wayne Munroe said Long Island MP Adrian Gibson should apologise to judges for saying their biases could affect the outcome of trials where they must render a verdict in the absence of a jury.
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PM under fire for not condemning Munroe over flogging comments
FREE National Movement Leader Dr Hubert Minnis yesterday criticised Prime Minister Perry Christie for not publicly condemning prominent attorney Wayne Munroe for suggesting that the country should start “flogging” illegal immigrants.
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Flowers 'should have shut down business'
CRAIG Flowers, who heads the FML Group, should have shut down his business “a long time ago”, according to the Save Our Bahamas Vote “No” campaign.
