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Financial service executive settles on $615k 'offer'

By NEIL HARTNELL Tribune Business Editor A Bahamian financial services executive has settled an action brought against him by Canadian regulators over a "false, misleading" $615,000 securities offering, agreeing to accept "the reduced charge of acting ag

Financial service executive settles on $615k 'offer'

By NEIL HARTNELL Tribune Business Editor A Bahamian financial services executive has settled an action brought against him by Canadian regulators over a "false, misleading" $615,000 securities offering, agreeing to accept "the reduced charge of acting ag

Financial service executive settles on $615k 'offer'

By NEIL HARTNELL Tribune Business Editor A Bahamian financial services executive has settled an action brought against him by Canadian regulators over a "false, misleading" $615,000 securities offering, agreeing to accept "the reduced charge of acting ag

Financial service executive settles on $615k 'offer'

By NEIL HARTNELL Tribune Business Editor A Bahamian financial services executive has settled an action brought against him by Canadian regulators over a "false, misleading" $615,000 securities offering, agreeing to accept "the reduced charge of acting ag

Water Corporation owes BISX-listed firm $8.3m

Water Corporation owes BISX-listed firm $8.3m By NEIL HARTNELL Tribune Business Editor The Water & Sewerage Corporation's cash flow woes were highlighted again last night after BISX-listed Consolidated Water revealed that was owed $8.3 million for water

Water Corporation owes BISX-listed firm $8.3m

Water Corporation owes BISX-listed firm $8.3m By NEIL HARTNELL Tribune Business Editor The Water & Sewerage Corporation's cash flow woes were highlighted again last night after BISX-listed Consolidated Water revealed that was owed $8.3 million for water

Ex-BCA chief may not have obtained ‘fair trial’

Prosecutors “singularly failed” to prove that a former Bahamian Contractors Association (BCA) president stole electricity at a prominent downtown Nassau property that he managed, the Court of Appeal ruled.

‘No way’ Bahamas can be cut to junk

There is “no way” that Moody’s can cut the Bahamas to ‘junk’ status because it is still meeting all its debt obligations as they become due, a former finance minister argued yesterday.

Buyers 'pull back' on Moody's threat

International buyers are "pulling back" due to uncertainties caused by Moody's threatened downgrading of the Bahamas to 'junk' status, realtors have warned.

Don’t make Moody’s a ‘political football’

The Bahamas will have “no one to blame but ourselves” if Moody’s follows through with its threat of a potential ‘junk’ downgrade, the Chamber of Commerce’s chief executive yesterday urging all politic

'PAYING THE PRICE' ON IMBALANCED POLICY RESPONSE

By NEIL HARTNELL Tribune Business Editor The Bahamas could end up "paying the price" for failing to employ a balanced countercyclical policy response to the 2007-2009 recession, a former finance minister warning yesterday this nation could find itself at

'PAYING THE PRICE' ON IMBALANCED POLICY RESPONSE

By NEIL HARTNELL Tribune Business Editor The Bahamas could end up "paying the price" for failing to employ a balanced countercyclical policy response to the 2007-2009 recession, a former finance minister warning yesterday this nation could find itself at

‘No cause for celebration’ over S&P breathing room

* Bahamas ‘still has to climb out of hole’ * But Chamber chief ‘fully expects’ 2018 upgrade * Many Bahamians don’t realise reform ‘gravity’

PRIVATE sector executives yesterday said the Bahamas has “no cause for celebration yet” after Standard & Poor’s (S&P) elected not to further downgrade its sovereign creditworthiness.

CARIBBEAN FIRM TO TAKE OVER TOP TOUR DESTINATION

By NEIL HARTNELL Tribune Business Editor A leading New Providence tourist attraction is set to be transformed into a "first class destination" via an investment worth "millions" of dollars, Tribune Business can reveal, with its Bahamian owners set to sel

CIBC: Bahamas worst for ‘bad’ mortgages

CIBC’s top Caribbean executive yesterday revealed that the “magnitude” of non-performing home loans in the Bahamas was “greater than anywhere else” in the region, this nation accounting for 50 per cent of the bank’s ‘bad’ mortgages.

Air freight operators in Bahamas boycott threat

Florida-based air cargo companies are threatening to boycott the Bahamas over the new Customs fees and fines set to be introduced tomorrow, with this newspaper told: “It’s D-Day time.”

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US gov't report 'tremendous blow' to FDI attraction

US government criticisms have dealt “a tremendous blow” to the Bahamas’ prospects of attracting increased foreign direct investment (FDI) at a time when this nation most needs it, the Democratic National Alliance’s (DNA) leader said yesterday.

HOME BUYERS LOSE $81K OVER STAMP DUTY 'LOOPHOLE'

By NEIL HARTNELL Tribune Business Editor Some 32 first-time Bahamian home buyers have collectively lost almost $81,000 because there is nothing in statute law to allow the refund of Stamp Duty mistakenly paid on their real estate purchases, it was reveal

HOME BUYERS LOSE $81K OVER STAMP DUTY 'LOOPHOLE'

By NEIL HARTNELL Tribune Business Editor Some 32 first-time Bahamian home buyers have collectively lost almost $81,000 because there is nothing in statute law to allow the refund of Stamp Duty mistakenly paid on their real estate purchases, it was reveal

HOME BUYERS LOSE $81K OVER STAMP DUTY 'LOOPHOLE'

By NEIL HARTNELL Tribune Business Editor Some 32 first-time Bahamian home buyers have collectively lost almost $81,000 because there is nothing in statute law to allow the refund of Stamp Duty mistakenly paid on their real estate purchases, it was reveal