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‘Unprecedented’ tourism boost via COVID upgrade

Resorts are eyeing “unprecedented” Christmas occupancies after the US upgraded The Bahamas’ COVID status, a top hotelier said yesterday, with many on pace to beat pre-pandemic levels.

Stopover tourism ‘85% recovered’ this winter

The Bahamas’ stopover tourism business will be “close to 85 percent” of pre-COVID levels by the 2021-2022 winter season, a top hotelier is predicting, with a return to full business levels “very achievable” next year.

Hotels ‘can’t ask for more’ over post-COVID rebound

Bahamian resorts are seeing the high-occupancy Christmas period expand by 50 percent, a top hotelier has revealed, adding of the post-COVID rebound: “We couldn’t have asked for more.”

Tourism relief: Biden doesn’t kill Christmas

The Bahamian tourism industry yesterday voiced relief that the US chose not to impose harsher COVID border restrictions that would have undermined the peak Christmas/New Year season.

Wells asks his aides to forego payment

HEALTH Minister Renward Wells said he has asked his driver and personal assistant to return the $1,158.40 the government gave them in honorarium payments as a sickout persisted among some 300 healthcare workers in New Providence and Grand Bahama for a fifth day yesterday.

Why Christians should oppose legalising marijuana

Letter writer Porcupine’s recent write-up was more an atheistic polemic against Christianity in particular and theism in general than a counterargument against the Biblical injunction on recreational marijuana.

‘Don’t tax us into oblivion’ on public pension deficit

The government “cannot tax Bahamians into oblivion” to cover its multi-billion dollar public sector pension deficits, the Chamber of Commerce’s chief executive warned yesterday.

NCAA Div 1: Bahamians set new career highs

SEVERAL Bahamian players set new career high scoring marks in NCAA Division I basketball over the course of the holiday season.

Ex-trade chief: Stop WTO 'total disaster'

A former trade minister last night warned it will be a “total disaster” if The Bahamas joins the WTO, as he challenged the government to identify “the benefits for Bahamians”.

Economy faces ‘real climb’ to dent unemployment rate

The Bahamas must see “a real climb in GDP growth” to at least 2.5 percent every year to break the cycle of double digit unemployment rates, a governance reformer warned yesterday.

DPM: PLP will take us ‘back to fiscal future’

The deputy prime minister says “every Bahamian should be worried” that the PLP will take the country “back to the future” by overturning recently-enacted fiscal disciplinary measures.

Mother who lost two sons to guns, warns: Too much killing. It has got to stop

THE pervasiveness of illegal firearms and the “kill or be killed culture” perpetuated by them are leading to the destruction of inner-city communities, a mother preparing to bury a second son in four months has said.

‘Work like hell’ after six-year GDP stall

The Bahamas must “work like hell” to achieve higher GDP growth rates after data released yesterday revealed the economy has finally exited a six-year stall.

‘We had to take Govt at their word on VAT’

The private sector “could have fought harder” for Fiscal Responsibility-type legislation and rules, a well-known businessman has conceded, but “had to take the Government at their word” on Value-Added Tax (VAT).

PM urged: ‘Show some spine’ and fire Fitzgerald

A Sarkis Izmirlian ally yesterday urged Prime Minister Perry Christie to “show some spine and fire” his Minister of Education over revelations that he tried to exploit his Cabinet position for private advantage.

Bahamas needs 'much' more FDI than $522m

The Bahamas needs “considerably” more foreign direct investment (FDI) than the $522 million inflows it attracted in 2016, a governance reformer yesterday describing this as “critical” to faster economic growth.Robert Myers, a principal with the Organ

Gov’t ‘opening Pandora’s Box’ with VAT breaks plan

The Government was yesterday warned that its VAT ‘exemptions’ plan will “open up a Pandora’s Box” of demands for ever-increasing concessions that may undermine the Bahamas’ low-tax model.

Cut spending 5% per year, Govt is urged

The Bahamas needs to cut spending by 5 per cent a year during the Minnis administration’s five-year term in office unless economic growth suddenly picks up, a governance reformer believes.

Gov’t contains early 2017 deficit growth to $27.9m

The Christie administration contained the fiscal deficit’s February 2017 increase to just $7.6 million, putting it on course to close 2016-2017 near its $350 million target.

Timeline urged for Fiscal Responsibility legislation

The Government was yesterday urged to provide timelines and details on its “fantastic” promises to reform loss-making government enterprises and introduce a Fiscal Responsibility Act.

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