September 20, 2024
Former Tourism Minister Dionisio D’Aguilar
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‘Serious discomfort’: Superwash expansion hit by $1m VAT reform
Superwash’s principal says plans to create 25 jobs by building a new laundromat location have been given “serious discomfort” by legal reforms restricting his ability to reclaim VAT on construction expenses.
BPL bill decline for businesses ‘total hogwash’
An ex-Cabinet minister has blasted it is “total hogwash” for the Government to boast it has reduced business energy costs with his firm now paying an all-in rate 45.8 percent higher than in October 2022.
‘Back to drawing board’ on stopover visitor drop
The Bahamas will likely endure “subdued” stopover visitor numbers in 2025, a major bank has warned, with a former tourism minister yesterday urging the nation to “go back to the drawing board” in this segment.
CCA urged to pay up $1.7bn
A former Baha Mar director yesterday urged the Government “to stand on the side of the person that is right” while demanding the project’s contractor “do the honourable thing” and pay Sarkis Izmirlian some $1.7bn.
Triple-digit retroactive airline fee increase ‘absolutely nuts’
The triple-digit retroactive fee hikes being imposed on Bahamian airlines and other carriers were yesterday branded “absolutely nuts” by the ex-Cabinet minister who first introduced the charging scheme.
‘Nonsensical’ for CCA to declare bankruptcy
A key Sarkis Izmirlian ally yesterday reiterated it would be “nonsensical” and “ground breaking” for Baha Mar’s contractor and its affiliates to declare bankruptcy as protection against his $1.642bn damages award.
D’Aguilar: $2.3m payout ‘reeks of impropriety’
The $2.3m paid to the son of ex-prime minister Perry Christie’s top policy adviser at the Baha Mar dispute’s peak “reeks of impropriety”, one of Sarkis Izmirlian’s former directors argued yesterday.
D’Aguilar: Push Atlantis to open more rooms
FORMER Tourism Minister Dionisio D’Aguilar said the government should pressure Atlantis to reopen hundreds of its vacant hotel rooms, which he said have been left “dead in the water”.
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