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'We're not pulling trigger' due to VAT

A Tax Coalition co-chair says his own companies are not “prepared to pull the trigger” on potential expansion projects due to the continuing uncertainty over Value-Added Tax (VAT).

Countdown to Heart Ball

The countdown is on for the biggest fund raising event for heart health advocates, the 50th Annual Heart Ball in aid of The Sir Victor Sassoon (Bahamas) Heart Foundation.

First winner of shopping voucher

FYP’s Mark Roberts presented Shenique Davis with a $300 shopping voucher to mark her achievement as the winner of the first ever “Getting to Zero” campaign.

Appeals of men convicted for raid on John Bull to be heard separately

THE appeals of two men contesting their conviction for conspiring to rob a John Bull retail store will be heard separately in the Court of Appeal.

On his way to home of the UC Bearcats

CHRIS Ferguson, the son of bodybuilder Danita Fry, has signed his official letter to attend the University of Cincinnati.

242Untapped to name new gospel star

THE newest gospel recording star in the Bahamas will be named this Saturday as 242Untapped’s top three contestants battle it out in a live broadcast at 7.30pm.

Avante Guardan is off to Thailand

THE AWARD winning local rock band Avante Guarden leaves the country today (Feb 5) to travel to Chiang Mai, Thailand, where they will compete in the Global Battle of the Bands competition. It the biggest performance of their musical careers which will take place in Thailand’s very own “City of Music”.

'No politician has stepped up to replace Christie'

NO politician has stepped up and shown that he or she can replace Prime Minister Perry Christie as leader of the Progressive Liberal Party, former PLP Cabinet minister George Smith said yesterday.

Tourism labels 2014 VAT 'unacceptable'

The Bahamian hotel industry yesterday urged the Government to push the Value-Added Tax (VAT) implementation deadline back into 2015, warning this had to be got right first time to avoid “killing the goose that lays the golden egg”.

Royal Navy ship crew show support for Ican Community

THE crew from the British Royal Navy ship HMS Richmond came out to show their support of the Ican Community, an after-school and summer programme in New Providence.

Are we really at a Mexican stand-off?

“VALUE added tax (VAT) is viable in the Bahamas,” according to Kendrick Christie, president of the Bahamas chapter of the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners.

Trial date set for man charged with supermarket owner's robbery

A MAN contesting his conviction and sentence for the home-invasion and armed robbery of a supermarket chain owner received his substantive hearing date for the Court of Appeal.

Attorneys meet Ministry on VAT

Higgs & Johnson attorneys have met with John Rolle, the financial secretary, and other Ministry of Finance officials over Value-Added Tax (VAT), its ramifications and impending implementation. The session was described as “intense and tremendously beneficial”.

VAT 'not practical'

THE government’s plan to prevent VAT “double taxation” was branded “impossible and not practical” by the private sector, its Tax Coalition co-chair warning that businesses will refuse to comply.

'Mexican stand-off' on VAT bonded warehouses

The Government’s bonded warehouse plan to prevent Value-Added Tax (VAT) ‘double taxation’ has been branded “impossible and not practical” by the private sector, its Tax Coalition co-chair warning: “It’s not going to happen.”

PM's civil rights claim

I read the papers and the social medias and find myself in a quandary as to why the present Prime Minister and another previous nominee for the Civil Right Walk of Fame was being honoured. I decided that I would look for the definition of civil rights.

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