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Nightmare of tax compliance

Mr Branville McCartney is the latest in a long line of business people that has felt the sting of the government’s insensitive over regulation where presenting a Tax Compliance Certificate Certificate (TCC) in order to get paid for services already rendered or under the terms of a contract that are being ignored.

Raise small claims limit

Does anyone in this country owe you a small amount of money and refuses to pay? And if “yes”, what can you do about it?

Leaders know when to leave

POLITICIANS thinking that if they leave the scene everything will collapse is historically well established in fact go back through history this has been the inevitable downfall of the majority of leaders.

That familiar feeling

Re: Christie vows to stay as PM (July 19)

Boat thefts in Abaco

I am a business owner in Hope Town, Abaco. My family and I have been a part of this community for the past 60 years.

Remove the emperors

EMPEROR Napoleon Bonaparte once said, “I can no longer obey; I have tasted command, and I cannot give it up”.

Profits and philanthropy

CORPORATE philanthropy is a great practice and locally we have many corporates who give generously.

The very odd political couple

Whether in desperation or naiveté Dr. Hubert Minnis keeps befriending political failures. His latest bromance (aka fondness amongst kindred spirits) is none other than the Prince of Blabber, Leslie Miller, the loud-mouth PLP recently chased from his job as chairman of the Bahamas Electricity Corporation.

Money but no voice

After “chequing” out Sideburns cartoon . . .

A tribute to Ivan Cleare

WHO WOULD have thought that the death angel would knock at my family’s door wearing the mask of crime?

Scary landscape

PM Christie really believes that the young PLP MP’s want him to stay? Oh when will these long BEC outages from Bahamas ‘No Power’ and ‘No Light’ the heat obviously gone to his head.

Digicel back in The Bahamas?

After more than twenty years of reaping millions of dollars in The Bahamas and repeatedly highlighted in their many commercials over the past 12 months that they are a company 100 per cent Bahamian owned.

Graduate’s tactics are a diversion

I have just returned with my family from Exuma where we spent ten days relaxing and admiring the beauty there. If there is anyone who doubts that there is a God, go to Exuma and they will quickly realise that there must be a Supreme Being to have created such beauty and perfection.

Blood bank services

I NOTED with interest the letter published in your paper of this date (7/19/16) concerning the blood banks refusal of any blood donations from British citizens living in The Bahamas - so too the article of the same date stressing the shortage of blood at all blood banks.

Tennyson’s proposition

How is it that former FNM turned PLP facilitator turned Hubert Minnis propagandist Tennyson Wells keeps interjecting himself into the affairs of the FNM that clearly are none of his business?