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VAT bill revealed
VAT bill revealed
The legislation and regulations the government drafted to guide its value-added tax (VAT) regime when it takes effect next July would tax over 80 different professions, cable bills and phone bills for all consumers, and electricity and water bills for businesses.
The Value Added Tax Bill 2013, and the Value Added Tax Regulations 2013, obtained by The Nassau Guardian, propose a flat tax rate of 15 ...
Downtown merchants: VAT will make us uncompetitive
Downtown merchants: VAT will make us uncompetitive
Downtown merchants yesterday expressed great concern over the implications of value added tax for the competitiveness of their products, as the Downtown Nassau Partnership revealed that a study has been commissioned to determine the potential impact of VAT on this sector which to a large extent relies on its "duty free" status for profitability.
Guardian Business understands some of the larger ret...
Benedicitine Sisters Celebrate 75th Anniversary
Benedicitine Sisters Celebrate 75th Anniversary
On October 3, 1937, a new possibility opened up for young Catholic women in The Bahamas when three local young women of New Providence -- Winifred (Sister Elizabeth) Claridge, Avis (Sister Teresa) Symonette and Lezretta (Sister Maria) Rahming - dared to be different in their social climate and answered the call to enter religious life.
Washed Away: A review of Judgement in Paradise
Washed Away: A review of Judgement in Paradise
Judgement in Paradise, written and directed by award-winning filmmaker-turned-playwright Adrian Wildgoose, promised the end of the world - well, The Bahamas - as we know it, but delivered something quite different.
In the context of destruction, Wildgoose tried to hold a magnifying glass to Bahamian society by highlighting issues like religious hypocrisy, lack of political accountability, familial...
A dwindling society
A dwindling society
When Sister Marva Coakley devoted herself to religious life in 1977, her Benedictine religious order had 22 sisters, and there were two convents in Nassau -- Saint Martin (which is now Saint Martin Monastery) and the Sisters of Charity. Today the Sisters of Charity Convent is no more and the number of sisters at Saint Martin has dwindled to 11 Bahamians and one foreigner.
As the numbers dwindled, ...
Two businesses impacted by roadworks get 7,000 each
Two businesses impacted by roadworks get 7,000 each
The first two business owners to be compensated as a part of the government's program to assist entrepreneurs adversely affected by the New Providence Road Improvement Project (NPRIP) collectively received about $14,000, according to Prime Minister Hubert Ingraham.
Ingraham told reporters on Monday that the business owners received about $7,000 each.
Minister of State for Finance Zhivargo Laing re...
Marilyn Olive Isolonoise Kelly, 73
Marilyn Olive Isolonoise Kelly, 73
Funeral Service for Marilyn Olive Isolonoise Kelly affectionately called"Ma"
age 73 of Lower Bogue, Eleuthera, who died at her residence August 8th, will be held on Saturday 11:00 a.m. at Charles Wesley Methodist Church, Lower Bogue, Eleuthera. Rev. John Baldwin II assisted by Pastor Ednol Cash and Bishop Dudley Kelly will officiate and interment will follow in the Public Cemetery, Lower Bogue, E...
All About Steve
All About Steve
- Genre : Comedy
- Rating : T - 15yrs and Older
Convinced that a CNN cameraman is her true love, an eccentric crossword puzzler (Bullock) trails him as he travels all over the country, hoping to convince him that they belong together.