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Eleuthera water cut-off prevented at last minute
CENTRAL Eleuthera’s water supply enjoyed a last-minute rescue after the Water & Sewerage Corporation finally submitted a newly-signed contract to the area’s supplier before Friday’s cut-off deadline.
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‘We’re not taking VAT change sitting down’
A Freeport manufacturer yesterday warned its competitiveness will be undermined, and presence in The Bahamas endangered, by VAT reforms that have seemingly removed its ‘zero rated’ status.
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Two VAT holidays to help families cope
PRIME Minister Dr Hubert Minnis announced that both a back-to-school value added tax holiday and a hurricane preparedness VAT holiday will take place during August and July.
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UPDATED: Man shot dead at barbershop
A MAN in his mid-20s was shot and killed at a barber shop yesterday afternoon, police said.
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Robbers snatch Miller’s payroll
FORMER Tall Pines MP Leslie Miller says he was robbed yesterday of $2,700 when he went shopping at an Oakes Field grocery store.
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Christmas ‘make or break’ for local retail
A Bahamas Federation of Retailers co-chair yesterday warned the upcoming Christmas season will be “make or break” for many merchants still grappling with the COVID-19 pandemic’s devastating economic fall-out.
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VAT cut’s ‘modest’ jobs, growth effect
Cutting the VAT rate to 10 percent will cause “only slight improvement” in job creation and economic growth, a University of the Bahamas (UoB) study asserts, while advocating it still “be pursued’.
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FINCO chief warns on low growth ‘challenge’
FINCO’s chairman has warned shareholders it will “continue to be challenged” with low growth and credit losses despite a more than four-fold increase in net income to $39.235m for the 2021 financial year.
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What is a Realm?
As Barbados changes its Head of State and becomes a Republic with a President, I thought I would reflect on questions people ask me about the UK’s relationship with The Bahamas. I often get asked what my opinion is about whether The Bahamas should change its Head of State. I usually respectfully reverse this question. This is a decision entirely for The Bahamas, its government and its people. But I thought it might be useful to look at some of the facts that frame our connections.
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Gambler winnings tax ‘too complex’
The Minnis administration chose not to implement the tax on web shop patron winnings because it was “too complex” and could have driven gamblers back into the underground economy.
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$100k fine for drugs charges
A MAN was fined $100,000 yesterday for drug charges dating back to 2014.
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Man charged with string of robberies on Exuma
A MAN from Exuma was granted bail on Friday for a string of robberies on the island and was also ordered to pay a fine on a drug charge.
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Charity seeing 20% hike in food prices
AN increase in food prices at the grocery store has had an adverse affect on one local charity.
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Retailers glad curfew won’t prevent shopping
RETAILERS were yesterday happy that the newest curfew change taking effect today does not prevent customers from shopping and gives workers sufficient time to get home from work.
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‘Huge dreams' snatched away in deadly shooting
A RELATIVE of a Muffler World employee who was shot dead last week said he was planning to attend Florida International University before he was killed.
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Lucayan union deal a ‘betrayal of trust’
The Grand Lucayan’s ex-chairman yesterday blasted the Government’s decision to settle with the resort’s managerial union as “a betrayal of trust” that has heaped further costs on taxpayers.
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‘A real dampener’: Fear over new COVID strain
The emergence of a new COVID-19 strain threatens to put “a real dampener” on Bahamian tourism’s rebound and that of the wider economy in the Christmas run-up, it was feared yesterday.
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Pandemic has had ‘cataclysmic’ impact on education
EDUCATION Technical and Vocational Training Minister Glenys Hanna Martin said COVID-19 has had a “cataclysmic” impact on education as she pledged to ensure the country does not produce “a lost generation of Bahamian youth.”
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Baby Bella Walker brought home to Grand Bahama
THE remains of Baby Bella Walker arrived in Grand Bahama from New Providence on a private charter aircraft on Friday afternoon – a solemn final journey home for the four-year-old who captured the heart of a nation.
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‘Forget the manifestos, what about National Development Plan?’
GOWON Bowe, Group CEO for Fidelity Bank & Trust, has said he is not moved by the 2021 Manifesto and Blueprint for Change released by the two major political parties as they gear up for the next election, but instead wishes they would carry out the policies of the National Development Plan initiated in 2016.
