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FATF TO MAKE LEGACY CLIENTS 'CHALLENGING'

By NEIL HARTNELL Tribune Business Editor New Financial Action Task Force (FATF) plans to make tax evasion a predicate money laundering offence will make dealing with legacy clients "quite challenging" for Bahamian financial services providers, a well-kno

NASSAU MUST BE INTELLECTUAL, NOT TOURIST, CAPITAL

By Richard Coulson During several recent months, the downward spiral in share prices and the threat of global recession have been largely driven by news - mostly bad - coming from the Eurozone. The abrupt reversal to price increases over the last few we

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

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

Liquidator targeting Govt’s $720k oil fee

Some $720,000 in oil exploration license fees that were paid to the Bahamas Government are being targeted by a Cayman-based liquidator, who has written to two Cabinet ministers seeking their assistance in recovering the funds.

BABY BOOMERS LANDING ON ENTREPRENEURIAL FEET

By Simon Cooper Res Socius Although I'm not near retiring by a long shot, I was encouraged by an article I read in USA Today. The piece analysed the demographic spread of start-up entrepreneurs in the US, and came up with conclusions that few expected. T

BABY BOOMERS LANDING ON ENTREPRENEURIAL FEET

By Simon Cooper Res Socius Although I'm not near retiring by a long shot, I was encouraged by an article I read in USA Today. The piece analysed the demographic spread of start-up entrepreneurs in the US, and came up with conclusions that few expected. T

BABY BOOMERS LANDING ON ENTREPRENEURIAL FEET

By Simon Cooper Res Socius Although I'm not near retiring by a long shot, I was encouraged by an article I read in USA Today. The piece analysed the demographic spread of start-up entrepreneurs in the US, and came up with conclusions that few expected. T

BABY BOOMERS LANDING ON ENTREPRENEURIAL FEET

By Simon Cooper Res Socius Although I'm not near retiring by a long shot, I was encouraged by an article I read in USA Today. The piece analysed the demographic spread of start-up entrepreneurs in the US, and came up with conclusions that few expected. T

BABY BOOMERS LANDING ON ENTREPRENEURIAL FEET

By Simon Cooper Res Socius Although I'm not near retiring by a long shot, I was encouraged by an article I read in USA Today. The piece analysed the demographic spread of start-up entrepreneurs in the US, and came up with conclusions that few expected. T

LEARN FROM NECESSITY AS OUR ANCESTORS DID

By Simon Cooper Res Socius The world changed irrevocably after the September 11 attacks and the international economic crisis, which keeps on rolling. Everything we believed in took a knock. People are a lot more cautious, and the employment umbrella we

Buyers 'pull back' on Moody's threat

International buyers are "pulling back" due to uncertainties caused by Moody's threatened downgrading of the Bahamas to 'junk' status, realtors have warned.

NAD eyes fee rise after $15.1m loss

The Nassau Airport Development Company (NAD) is currently mulling another fee increase, as it predicts a “few more years” of losses following $15.1 million in ‘red ink’ incurred during its 2015 financial year.

AML chair: three food retail players likely to survive

By NEIL HARTNELL Tribune Business Editor The Bahamian food retail market will ultimately be dominated by just three major players, AML Foods' chairman telling Tribune Business in the wake of Robin Hood's demise that consolidation was "inevitable". Dionis