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Payroll tax unable to cover NHI

A 3 per cent payroll tax will not be sufficient to cover the proposed National Health Insurance (NHI) scheme’s total costs, the private sector yesterday warning that sticking to a January 2016 implementation will create a “challenging sprint to the finish”.

FAILED BROKER IN '16 REGULATORY BREACHES'

By NEIL HARTNELL Tribune Business Editor The Securities Commission uncovered 16 alleged regulatory breaches during an on-site inspection of Caledonia Corporate Management less than one year before its $25 million collapse, Tribune Business can reveal, th

Robin Hood chief still eyeing $5-$8m eastern build-out

By NEIL HARTNELL Tribune Business Editor Robin Hood's president is eyeing a career move into real estate development via a further $5.5-$8 million build-out of the former retailer's Prince Charles Drive site, telling Tribune Business he had "five interes

Robin Hood chief still eyeing $5-$8m eastern build-out

By NEIL HARTNELL Tribune Business Editor Robin Hood's president is eyeing a career move into real estate development via a further $5.5-$8 million build-out of the former retailer's Prince Charles Drive site, telling Tribune Business he had "five interes

Robin Hood chief still eyeing $5-$8m eastern build-out

By NEIL HARTNELL Tribune Business Editor Robin Hood's president is eyeing a career move into real estate development via a further $5.5-$8 million build-out of the former retailer's Prince Charles Drive site, telling Tribune Business he had "five interes

FUND TARGETS $500M-$1BN IN REAL ESTATE INVESTMENTS

By NEIL HARTNELL Tribune Business Editor A Bahamian financial services provider yesterday said it was targeting between $500 million to $1 billion in asset-backed real estate securities investments for its newly-launched mutual fund, and seeking to expan

ATLANTIS 'VERY CONFIDENT' ON PRE-RECESSION TREND

By NEIL HARTNELL Tribune Business Editor While Atlantis's performance for March and April 2012 has matched pre-recession levels, Kerzner International (Bahamas) top executive yesterday said the resort - although "very confident" -wanted to "see what happ

ATLANTIS 'VERY CONFIDENT' ON PRE-RECESSION TREND

By NEIL HARTNELL Tribune Business Editor While Atlantis's performance for March and April 2012 has matched pre-recession levels, Kerzner International (Bahamas) top executive yesterday said the resort - although "very confident" -wanted to "see what happ

ATLANTIS 'VERY CONFIDENT' ON PRE-RECESSION TREND

By NEIL HARTNELL Tribune Business Editor While Atlantis's performance for March and April 2012 has matched pre-recession levels, Kerzner International (Bahamas) top executive yesterday said the resort - although "very confident" -wanted to "see what happ

ATLANTIS 'VERY CONFIDENT' ON PRE-RECESSION TREND

By NEIL HARTNELL Tribune Business Editor While Atlantis's performance for March and April 2012 has matched pre-recession levels, Kerzner International (Bahamas) top executive yesterday said the resort - although "very confident" -wanted to "see what happ

ATLANTIS 'VERY CONFIDENT' ON PRE-RECESSION TREND

By NEIL HARTNELL Tribune Business Editor While Atlantis's performance for March and April 2012 has matched pre-recession levels, Kerzner International (Bahamas) top executive yesterday said the resort - although "very confident" -wanted to "see what happ

Investor seeking $2.7bn in South Ocean dispute

A controversial Austrian investor is pledging to seek an extraordinary $2.7bn in damages if his attempted acquisition of New Providence’s 384-acre South Ocean resort is ultimately thwarted.

ATLANTIS BANKRUPTCY FEAR 'VERY FAR FETCHED'

By NEIL HARTNELL Tribune Business Editor Kerzner International (Bahamas) chief executive yesterday described fears that the company's $2.5 billion lenders would look to foreclose or place the company into bankruptcy as "very far fetched", following Brook

Gov't pledges to bridge 30k home digital divide

The Government's long-awaited Electronic Communications Sector policy pledges to bridge the 'Digital Divide' that has left 30,000 Bahamian households without broadband Internet, deeming this essential for "further and faster" economic growth.

‘Unprecedented’: Hotel staff enjoyed slow season boost ‘unpred

Many hotel staff worked “unprecedented” five-day weeks during the tourism season’s slowest months, a union leader revealed yesterday, as he bids to complete multiple new industrial agreements in early 2023.

Realtor has ‘never seen such high rental rates’

A Bahamian realtor says he has “never seen such high rental rates” as now exist in some of western New Providence’s most upscale communities with demand in this segment now suppressing available-for-sale inventory.

Lessons to learn in regulatory debacle

Dear Sir, Re: ONTARIO SECURITIES COMMISSION (OSC) and AMERON OIL AND GAS LTD et al. The news that Gaye Knowles was forced to settle with the OSC in the case originally brought against him and others, including Ameron, Mx-IV, Anthony Howorth and Giorgio

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Baha Mar becoming ‘huge white dinosaur’

A former Baha Mar director yesterday warned that the Government will soon “have a huge white dinosaur on their hands”, despite the project’s secured creditor promising that a solution is being developed.

Gov't warned: 'We can't take another shock' with NHI

The Government was yesterday warned that National Health Insurance (NHI) would not succeed without private sector buy-in, one executive warning: "The economy cannot take another shock." Edison Sumner, the Bahamas Chamber of Commerce and Employers Confederation's (BCCEC) chief executive, told Tribune Business that an unsustainable NHI programme could have "catastrophic effects for a fragile economy" that was still bedding down Value-Added Tax (VAT).

Ex-minister pledges to battle $2.57m reversal

An ex-Cabinet minister has pledged "to fight on principle" a $2.57 million damages award against himself and his law firm, which the Court of Appeal last week backed as enforceable.