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PM: ‘No time to rest on laurels’ over EU

THE Prime Minister yesterday said the Bahamas has “no time to rest on our laurels”, given the European Union’s (EU) concerns over the absence of corporate income taxation. Dr Hubert Minnis told the House of Assembly that the EU’s Code of Conduct group had written to the Government expressing concerns that this nation’s tax system did not comply with its ‘blacklisting’ criteria.

WSC TO SPEND $10M ON FOUR NEW WATER TREATMENT PLANTS

By NATARIO McKENZIE Tribune Business Reporter nmckenzie@tribunemedia.net THE Water and Sewerage Corporation (WSC) plans to spend about $10 million on four waste water treatment plants as well as several disposal wells in New Providence, the corporation's

WSC TO SPEND $10M ON FOUR NEW WATER TREATMENT PLANTS

By NATARIO McKENZIE Tribune Business Reporter nmckenzie@tribunemedia.net THE Water and Sewerage Corporation (WSC) plans to spend about $10 million on four waste water treatment plants as well as several disposal wells in New Providence, the corporation's

WSC TO SPEND $10M ON FOUR NEW WATER TREATMENT PLANTS

By NATARIO McKENZIE Tribune Business Reporter nmckenzie@tribunemedia.net THE Water and Sewerage Corporation (WSC) plans to spend about $10 million on four waste water treatment plants as well as several disposal wells in New Providence, the corporation's

WSC TO SPEND $10M ON FOUR NEW WATER TREATMENT PLANTS

By NATARIO McKENZIE Tribune Business Reporter nmckenzie@tribunemedia.net THE Water and Sewerage Corporation (WSC) plans to spend about $10 million on four waste water treatment plants as well as several disposal wells in New Providence, the corporation's

WSC TO SPEND $10M ON FOUR NEW WATER TREATMENT PLANTS

By NATARIO McKENZIE Tribune Business Reporter nmckenzie@tribunemedia.net THE Water and Sewerage Corporation (WSC) plans to spend about $10 million on four waste water treatment plants as well as several disposal wells in New Providence, the corporation's

Airline '90% complete' on $4.5-$5M project

By NATARIO McKENZIE Tribune Business Reporter nmckenzie@tribunemedia.net WESTERN Air chief executive, Rex Rolle, said yesterday that construction on the airline's new terminal and maintenance facility in Freeport is "about 90 per cent" complete, telling

Quotes from the day

Quotes from the day Paul Moss, Independent Garden Hills It's going pretty well, I think though that since we've been doing elections we should have had a better coordination with respect to buildings that we use this building while it can accomodate the

KFC's union cancellation historic first

By NATARIO McKENZIE Tribune Business Reporter nmckenzie@tribunemedia.net The minister of labour yesterday said Kentucky Fried Chicken's (Nassau) move to cancel its 'voluntary recognition' of a trade union's 'bargaining agent' status marked the first time

Union 'not sitting idle' over Atlantis

By NATARIO McKENZIE Tribune Business Reporter nmckenzie@tribunemedia.net THE Bahamas Hotel, Catering and Allied Workers Union (BHCAWU) is closely monitoring the Atlantis ownership situation, and is prepared to take legal action if necessary, its executiv

KFC: Union on 'amber alert'

KFC: Union on 'amber alert' By NATARIO McKENZIE Tribune Business Reporter nmckenzie@tribunemedia.net Kentucky Fried Chicken (Nassau) employees are "adamant" that they are not prepared to take a reduction in their wages or benefits, a Bahamas Hotel, Cat

KFC: Union on 'amber alert'

KFC: Union on 'amber alert' By NATARIO McKENZIE Tribune Business Reporter nmckenzie@tribunemedia.net Kentucky Fried Chicken (Nassau) employees are "adamant" that they are not prepared to take a reduction in their wages or benefits, a Bahamas Hotel, Cat

KFC: Union on 'amber alert'

KFC: Union on 'amber alert' By NATARIO McKENZIE Tribune Business Reporter nmckenzie@tribunemedia.net Kentucky Fried Chicken (Nassau) employees are "adamant" that they are not prepared to take a reduction in their wages or benefits, a Bahamas Hotel, Cat

Hutchison ‘streamlines’ Freeport investments

The sales process for the 409-acre Grand Lucayan property on Grand Bahama is “still ongoing”, Prime Minister Perry Christie said yesterday.

Two-destination Cuba travel 'bit of a stretch'

A 'two-destination' travel arrangement that would see visitors to Cuba also travel to the Bahamas could be a “bit of a stretch”, the FNM's deputy leader believes.

STRAW VENDORS SEE '200% SALES RISE' ON WHARF

By NATARIO McKENZIE Tribune Business Reporter nmckenzie@tribunemedia.net STRAW vendors said yesterday that their greater visibility along Prince George Wharf has increased sales volumes, with one vendor telling Tribune Business business was "200 per cent

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'Internal brain drain'costs Bahamas $3.5bn

The Bahamas is losing nearly $3.5 billion to the “internal brain drain” caused by low worker productivity, a well-known eye doctor yesterday arguing this was having a greater economic impact than the loss of 61 per cent of tertiary-educated Bahamians to jobs abroad.

Phil's: 'Enough to go around' in food retail

By NATARIO McKENZIE Tribune Business Reporter nmckenzie@tribunemedia.net THERE'S "enough to go around" in the food retail business for everyone to turn a profit, according to Phil Lightbourne, owner of the Gladstone Road-based food retailer/wholesaler Ph

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'LOT OF ABUSE' IN WELFARE SYSTEM

By NATARIO McKENZIE Tribune Business Reporter nmckenzie@tribunemedia.net The Bahamas' social security system has been subjected to "a lot of abuse", the minister responsible has admitted, acknowledging that welfare assistance was not always being given t

INFRASTRUCTURE NOT LINKED TO THE ECONOMY

By NATARIO McKENZIE Tribune Business Reporter nmckenzie@tribunemedia.net THE Bahamas traditionally has not made the connection between public infrastructure investment and increased economic activity, Progressive Liberal Party (PLP) Senator, Michael Halk