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Just 12% of mortgages finance 'new buildings'

New Central Bank of the Bahamas date has provided a further insight into the sluggish home construction market, with just 12 per cent of mortgage applications involving 'new builds'.

Corporate redress regime upheld with $33m verdict

The Supreme Court has prevented the Bahamas being perceived as “a parochial, quirky jurisdiction” for international business through its recent ruling on a $33 million insolvency dispute, a former attorney general said yesterday.

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800 job applications for new mobile player

Cable Bahamas had received around 800 applications for jobs with the nation's second mobile provider by end-last week, it was revealed yesterday, and is confident the new operator can beat its financial targets.

Financial service executive settles on $615k 'offer'

By NEIL HARTNELL Tribune Business Editor A Bahamian financial services executive has settled an action brought against him by Canadian regulators over a "false, misleading" $615,000 securities offering, agreeing to accept "the reduced charge of acting ag

Financial service executive settles on $615k 'offer'

By NEIL HARTNELL Tribune Business Editor A Bahamian financial services executive has settled an action brought against him by Canadian regulators over a "false, misleading" $615,000 securities offering, agreeing to accept "the reduced charge of acting ag

Financial service executive settles on $615k 'offer'

By NEIL HARTNELL Tribune Business Editor A Bahamian financial services executive has settled an action brought against him by Canadian regulators over a "false, misleading" $615,000 securities offering, agreeing to accept "the reduced charge of acting ag

Financial service executive settles on $615k 'offer'

By NEIL HARTNELL Tribune Business Editor A Bahamian financial services executive has settled an action brought against him by Canadian regulators over a "false, misleading" $615,000 securities offering, agreeing to accept "the reduced charge of acting ag

Financial service executive settles on $615k 'offer'

By NEIL HARTNELL Tribune Business Editor A Bahamian financial services executive has settled an action brought against him by Canadian regulators over a "false, misleading" $615,000 securities offering, agreeing to accept "the reduced charge of acting ag

‘Breath of fresh air’: 150k cruise arrivals over Xmas

The Downtown Nassau Partnership’s (DNP) co-chair yesterday hailed the increase in cruise ship traffic as a “breath of fresh air” for business with close to 150,000 passenger arrivals forecast for Christmas week.

Police probe like 'sword of Damocles'

By NEIL HARTNELL Tribune Business Editor A Royal Bahamas Police Force (RBPF) investigation is "hanging over our heads like the sword of Damocles", developers of a $40 million Exuma-based real estate project have told Tribune Business, arguing that severa

Police probe like 'sword of Damocles'

By NEIL HARTNELL Tribune Business Editor A Royal Bahamas Police Force (RBPF) investigation is "hanging over our heads like the sword of Damocles", developers of a $40 million Exuma-based real estate project have told Tribune Business, arguing that severa

Police probe like 'sword of Damocles'

By NEIL HARTNELL Tribune Business Editor A Royal Bahamas Police Force (RBPF) investigation is "hanging over our heads like the sword of Damocles", developers of a $40 million Exuma-based real estate project have told Tribune Business, arguing that severa

CIBC: Bahamas worst for ‘bad’ mortgages

CIBC’s top Caribbean executive yesterday revealed that the “magnitude” of non-performing home loans in the Bahamas was “greater than anywhere else” in the region, this nation accounting for 50 per cent of the bank’s ‘bad’ mortgages.

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Gov’t agrees ‘few hundred thousand’ in VAT credits

The Government has approved “several hundred thousand dollars” of Value-Added Tax (VAT) credit refunds, a top official yesterday promising that businesses would not endure “a protracted wait” to receive them.

BTC warns union on its 'long-term health'

BTC warns union on its 'long-term health' By NEIL HARTNELL Tribune Business Editor The Bahamas Telecommunications Company (BTC) last night reminded the trade unions representing its staff that it had to safeguard its "long-term health", since an unfavou

Skills transfer woe still a ‘sad reality’

The Bahamas must change “the sad reality” that key skills and knowledge are not being passed on to local workers by expatriate work permit holders, a prominent contractor argued yesterday.

PM cuts 2016 GDP growth to just 0.5%

Prime Minister Perry Christie yesterday slashed a full percentage point off the Bahamas’ projected economic growth for 2016, cutting real GDP expansion estimates to just 0.5 per cent.

'Early summer' start on $100m B Mar power plant

'Early summer' start on $100m B Mar power plant By NEIL HARTNELL Tribune Business Editor Some 75 persons will be employed at peak construction on Baha Mar's $100 million Seawater District Cooling (SDC) plant, Tribune Business was told yesterday, with bu

'Early summer' start on $100m B Mar power plant

'Early summer' start on $100m B Mar power plant By NEIL HARTNELL Tribune Business Editor Some 75 persons will be employed at peak construction on Baha Mar's $100 million Seawater District Cooling (SDC) plant, Tribune Business was told yesterday, with bu

Caribbean hotel rivals beat Bahamas' 5% RevPAR rise

By NEIL HARTNELL Tribune Business Editor The Bahamian hotel industry's 5 per cent revenue per room (RevPAR) increase for the first nine months in 2011 was overshadowed by greater rises in many Caribbean competitors, as an industry consultant yesterday to