The Bahamas Chamber of Commerce and Employers Confederation (BCCEC) has named Gowon Bowe as its new chairman, after accepting the resignation of his immediate predecessor, Robert Myers.
The BCCEC Board accepted Mr Myers’s decision to resign from that post, and his position as Coalition for Responsible Taxation co-chairman, during a Monday afternoon meeting.
He will be replaced at the BCCEC by Mr Bowe, his fellow Tax Coalition co-chair, who is an accountant and partner at PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) Bahamas.
The BCCEC, in a statement, said Mr Bowe was appointed with immediate effect. He previously served as its vice-chairman, and the BCCEC said Mr Bowe had shown “exemplary leadership”.
Mr Myers had served the Chamber for the past six years as a member of its various committees and the Board, playing a key role in establishing The Chamber Institute.
And, over the past 12 months, he has led the Coalition for Responsible Taxation, a division of the Chamber.
“Mr Myers was the catalyst behind the massive drive by the BCCEC and private sector advocacy for a review and certain amendments to the implementation of Value Added-Tax in the Bahamas, having commissioned extensive studies to be conducted on VAT implementation in the Bahamas,” the BCCEC said.
“His work and dialogue with the Government on fiscal reform, freedom of information and energy sector policy speak well of his accomplishments as chairman of the BCCEC.
“Mr Myers has made an invaluable contribution to the development of the BCCEC, and by extension the economy of the Bahamas by his many initiatives, and his contributions have not gone unnoticed.”
Comments
Publius 10 years ago
Why wont you report on the reason Mr. Myers resigned, as stated in his resignation letter given to the Chamber, etc and that is in the public domain elsewhere?
Well_mudda_take_sic 10 years ago
From this point on every shipment of goods coming into Freeport and Nassau for this guy Myers or any of his business enterprises or family members should be subjected to intense careful scrutiny by Bahamas Customs. In fact, a full blown investigation should be undertaken of the duty he and his businesses and family members have paid on goods they have brought into our country over the past several years. Honest Bahamas Customs personnel working in both Freeport and Nassau need to blow the whistle (and provide any evidence they can put their hands on) of wrongdoing and dishonesty by certain of their colleagues in allowing Myers to pay less duty than he and his businesses and family members should have paid or be paying. The same should be done in the case of others who are generally well known to be tax dodgers on a grand scale that seriously harms the financial condition of our country.
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