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Target ‘big boys’ first with corporate taxes
The Bahamas should initially only target companies generating more than $5m or $10m in annual net profits with a corporate income tax, a well-known attorney is arguing.
Ex-minister: ‘Use carrots, not stick’ over COVID jabs
A former Cabinet minister yesterday added his voice to those opposing mandatory COVID-19 vaccinations, telling Tribune Business: “Better to use a carrot than a stick.”
Community service over fake car disc
A 28-year-old man who was caught driving a car with a fraudulent inspection disc was yesterday ordered to complete 50 hours of community service.
West worst for police to serve
Almost a week ago, eight people were attacked by hitmen in a well-coordinated shooting, only two people survived, and six others killed, marking this incident as the second recorded mass shooting since 2013 and a similar incident that was reported back in the early 1960’s when the Bahamas was under the British Crown.
Kai Jones signs with Klutch Sports ahead of NBA Draft
Kai Jones has signed with Klutch Sports Group ahead of the 2021 NBA Draft.
‘No athlete is ever bigger than their country’
IMMEDIATE past International Amateur Athletic Federation councilwoman Pauline Davis-Thompson said she’s appalled by the fact that the Bahamas could not field a team for the fifth edition of the World Athletics’ Relays.
FRONT PORCH: The British Monarchy is an anachronism for sovereign, independent countries like ours
One does not have to be a monarchist or a fan of the late Prince Philip to admire the simplicity and beauty of the Order of Service at his brief funeral held at St. George’s Chapel on the Lower Ward at Windsor Castle.
Banks suffer $145m hit to cover COVID losses
The Bahamian commercial banking industry booked $145m in collective provisions last year to cover expected COVID-19 loan losses, the Central Bank’s governor revealed yesterday.
Not the country we once knew
I remember the days – yes, the good old days — when the only weapon a Bahamian policeman carried was a “Billy” at his waist, and if my memory serves me right in my early days of reading The Tribune it seems that the only crimes committed that could see you before the courts was offending the delicate ears of the constable on the beat with “foul language’’.
Golfer Riley and Rattlers win Conference Tournament
CAMERON Riley and his Florida A&M Rattlers men’s golf programme concluded their regular season with a conference championship, another addition to their season of milestones.
Deandre Ayton is 'Mr Efficiency'
Deandre Ayton’s efficiency has been an integral part of the Phoenix Suns’ rise in the NBA standings.
ALICIA WALLACE: If you’re worried about the vaccine, read up, learn the facts and hopefully, like me, you’ll take it
LAST week, I got my first dose of the AstraZeneca vaccine. I had been watching and waiting to be eligible, ready to get vaccinated even before the vaccines were ready.
$200m capital raising eyed for ‘bigger year’
Up to $200m could be raised “in one of the bigger years” for the Bahamian capital markets, a leading investment banker has predicted of 2021, despite the protracted recovery from COVID-19.
‘Step up to the plate and get the jab done’: Top tourism executive warns jobs, economy on line
Bahamians are endangering their jobs, incomes and families through resistance to taking the COVID-19 vaccine, a senior tourism official warned yesterday in urging: “Step up to the plate and get it done.”
Four accused over gun find
FOUR Freeport men were arraigned on the charge of possession of a firearm with intent to endanger life on Tuesday.
Clearing banks
To those Bahamians who were paying attention, the emptiness, shallowness and myopia of the FNM’s supposed project to assist middle class professionals with access to affordable land was sharply exposed by the response of the Clearing Banks Association to the initiative.
Government and legal plunder
Over the past forty odd years governments all over the world, inclusive of The Bahamas, have evolved into organisations which seemingly tax the poor while enriching those who are already considered to be amongst the elitist classes. The marginalised and the poor, as spoken of in the Bible, are ever with us.
Final decision on fate of CARIFTA in May
A FINAL decision on the fate of the 2021 CARIFTA Games will be announced in May.
INTERNATIONAL NEWS: Ex-cop guilty of murder and manslaughter in George Floyd case
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Former Minneapolis Officer Derek Chauvin was convicted Tuesday of murder and manslaughter for pinning George Floyd to the pavement with his knee on the Black man's neck in a case that touched off worldwide protests, violence and a furious reexamination of racism and policing in the U.S.
Investigators return to crash scene
INVESTIGATORS will return to Bimini today to continue their probe into a plane crash that killed one of two men on board.
