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New Legislation Will Impact Vehicle Importation
February 23, 2024
New Legislation Will Impact Vehicle Importation
NASSAU, BAHAMAS - As it stands, vehicles being imported into The Bahamas must be no more than 10 years old but, that could possibly change in the near future, in the form of a reduction.
January 14, 2024
BAIC Executive Chairman: We Want to Reduce the Importation of Product Into the Country
NASSAU, BAHAMAS - In addition to the opening of two national parks in Eleuthera, The Bahamas Agricultural and Industrial Corporation is doing it's part to invest in Eleuthera.
June 22, 2023
VAT, customs duty being removed on importation of water sports vessels
Seeking to level the playing field for Bahamian-owned and foreign-owned vessels operating in the local water sports and sport fishing industries, Minister of Transport and Housing JoBeth Coleby-Davis yesterday announced that vessels imported into The Bahamas for those purposes will pay a first-time registration fee in lieu of import duties and value-added taxes. Contributing to ...
The post VAT, c...
Illegal Firearms Importation Remains High
November 05, 2010
Illegal Firearms Importation Remains High
Assistant Commissioner of Police Glenn Miller said yesterday that the importation of illegal firearms is as active as ever, evidenced by the number of seizures seen over the last two years.
According to him, police intelligence has identified the shipping ports as being some of the primary entry points for weapons. And though he would not say definitively, he added that police intelligence su...
October 05, 2017
Small business owners hit out at new importation rules at Freeport harbour
A group of small business owners on Grand Bahama said Wednesday they are significantly affected by the new rules and regulations imposed by the government concerning the importation of goods at the Freeport Harbour.Having to deal with an already depr
Businessman acquitted of ammunition importation
April 29, 2016
Businessman acquitted of ammunition importation
Prominent businessman Edward Laing has been acquitted of smuggling 1,480 rounds of ammunition of various calibers from the United States to New Providence in 2014.
February 26, 2016
Businessman remains in prison on gun importation charges
A popular Freeport businessman who was arrested at Grand Bahama International Airport on February 11 spent another week in prison as he waits to learn whether he will be freed on bail.
Alleged gun runner Edward Barrett, 47, of Pink Pearl Close, Freeport, who operates Sapona Imports, was remanded to the Bahamas Department of Correctional Services on his arraignment on February 16.
After appearing b...
Two accused of gun importation
September 25, 2015
Two accused of gun importation
Two men accused of importing a firearm into the country without the required permit have been remanded to prison pending a bail hearing.
October 10, 2013
Captain, girlfriend had made multiple cocaine importation trips from Bahamas
Sunday?s alleged smuggling venture wasn?t the first time captain Jon Paul Costenbader cruised into the Atlantic Ocean on the yacht Secret Spot to pick up cocaine, a federal prosecutor said today in court.
And it wasn?t the first time his girlfriend ? 33-year-old Michelle Caribe Daniel ? accompanied him, the prosecutor added.
The two came before a magistrate judge today for their detention he...
January 24, 2013
Government to regulate importation of tobacco products
NASSAU, The Bahamas -- The Government is moving to regulate and control the importation and manufacture of tobacco products through the use of excise stamps and a system of mandatory registration of such products. Minister of State in the Ministry of Finance the Hon Michael Halkitis moved the second reading and committal of the Excise Stamp (Tobacco Products) Control Act, 2013 in the House of Asse...
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