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April 11, 2011
Deficit 'wipe out' through 350m one- off revenues

By NEIL HARTNELL

Tribune Business Editor

The Government should "just about wipe out" its projected 2010-2011 Budget deficit due to the receipt of more than $350 million in one-off revenue inflows, although a former finance minister yesterday expressed concern that this could "send the policymakers to sleep".

When the total $231.3 million received from the Bahamas Telecommunications Company's (B...

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January 11, 2019
Conch may be wiped out in 10-15 years

THE Bahamas National Trust is gearing up for a major conservation push in the wake of research findings that warn the local conch supply could be wiped out in ten to 15 years...

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March 26, 2021
'ERADICATION': Smith accuses Govt of racist plan to wipe out Haitian communities

THE attorney representing shanty town residents in a judicial review centred on the demolition of unregulated communities yesterday accused the government of embarking on a "dictatorial" policy to completely eliminate ethnically Haitian-Bahamian communities.

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March 18, 2021
Bahamas Feeding Network thanks Royal Caribbean - Because of you, we continue to push on in the fight to wipe out hunger

The Bahamas Feeding Network today extended ‘deepest appreciation, a thank you that goes beyond words’ to Royal Caribbean, calling the award-winning cruise line “a corporate partner who is helping to ease the suffering of thousands who, without such generosity, would all too often go to bed hungry.”

“On behalf of all of those who were food security challenged before and are facing eve...

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March 02, 2021
50 PROPERTY TAX AMNESTY: Huge incentive to persuade families to wipe out arrears

PRIME Minister Dr Hubert Minnis yesterday announced the government’s intention to offer a real property tax amnesty programme while announcing a scheme to offer “upscale” western New Providence building lots to young Bahamians.

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August 26, 2020
'Vendors criminal records should now be wiped clean'

AN ATTORNEY and activist have urged the government to expunge the records of street coconut vendors who were charged and fined for breaking emergency orders, insisting Prime Minister Dr Hubert Minnis' plan to offer them grants to advance their businesses does not go far enough...

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November 25, 2019
Pm: Time To Wipe The Slate Clean

PRIME Minister Dr Hubert Minnis supports expunging criminal records of people convicted of possessing small amounts of marijuana, he said yesterday...

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May 15, 2011
BORCO's 318m debt wiped out

By NEIL HARTNELL

Tribune Business Editor

The Bahamas Oil Refining Company's (BORCO) new owner has repaid the company's entire existing debt of $318.2 million upon assuming control, and plans to invest between $220-$280 million in capital expenditure into the Grand Bahama-based oil storage and transhipment facility during 2011.

The figures, detailed in Buckeye Partners' form 10-Q filed with the ...

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June 26, 2019
Rasta pipedream Lawsuit seeks drug convictions wiped out and damages

A GROUP of Rastas is seeking to have all criminal convictions that relate to Rastafari possession, cultivation and supply of Indian hemp since 1963 wiped out...

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April 16, 2019
Anti-WTO group: Accession will wipe out 'all local manufacturing' and 'thousands of jobs'

Bahamians Against WTO (World Trade Organization) yesterday contended that The Bahamas' accession to the international trading body will wipe out "all local manufacturing" and "thousands and thousands of jobs". Super Value owner, Rupert Roberts, who was part of Bahamians Against WTO's press conference yesterday, said [...]

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