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Boyer-Cartwright: Make aircraft registry a priority
Boyer-Cartwright: Make aircraft registry a priority
A top attorney specializing in aviation law is appealing to the new administration to keep the formation of an aircraft registry on the agenda.
Llewellyn Boyer-Cartwright, a senior associate with Callenders & Co., recently attended a seminar in Washington D.C. entitled, International Aircraft Financing and Leasing. He met with a committee member of the Cape Town Convention, the international acco...
What The Bahamas needs is inspiration
What The Bahamas needs is inspiration
Dear Editor,
The world is watching a burgeoning paradigm shift that has been equated to the impact of the Industrial Age. It is noted that the Industrial Revolution was a major economic change, which ushered in the growth of the middle class in the western world. Today, we see rapid growth taking place in the middle class in countries like China, India and Brazil. These countrie...
Sarkozy got it wrong, but not enough to say so
Sarkozy got it wrong, but not enough to say so
France's President Nicolas Sarkozy has publicly - and wrongfully - identified three Caribbean countries as "tax havens". The response to him should be unified and robust.
Sarkozy named the Caribbean countries, Antigua and Barbuda, Barbados and Trinidad and Tobago, among eight others - Botswana, Brunei, Panama, Seychelles, Uruguay, Vanuatu, Switzerland and Liechtenstein.
Sarkozy also threaten...
Meadows joins the dedicated team at Deep Water Cay
Meadows joins the dedicated team at Deep Water Cay
The team at Deep Water Cay (DWC) is continuing to grow and provide memorable experiences for both guests and homeowners on the cay. The newest addition to their team is Robert Meadows, a native Grand Bahamian, who now serves as the Offshore Fishing Captain.
Russians have nearly $3 bil. in assets in The Bahamas
The Central Bank of The Bahamas (CBOB) confirmed that just less than $3 billion worth of assets with Russian beneficiaries are held in primarily locally based offshore banks and trust companies in The Bahamas.
The secret deal to steal BTC
The secret deal to steal BTC
By LARRY SMITH
JUST before the 2007 general election, the Christie government made a secret deal to sell 49 per cent of BTC on credit to an unknown foreign entity called Bluewater Ventures. The electorate wasn't aware a deal had been struck and didn't know the terms, although official talks had been ongoing for two years.
Bluewater described itself as "a private equity firm specializing in turna...
Mario Carey Realty's Newest Associate took long road to Real Estate
Nassau, Bahamas - Lamond Davis took the long road to real estate, literally. He drove
a FedEx truck and delivered envelopes, boxes and smiles to dozens of companies
and familiar faces every day for seven years. And with every office he went
into, he wondered if the people there felt a greater sense of job satisfaction
than he did. Realizing he wanted a change, he went to school at night, took
acco...
BPC hails Senate passage of oil bills
BPC hails Senate passage of oil bills
Bahamas Petroleum Company (BPC) continues to follow closely the progress of new petroleum legislation through the Bahamian system, announcing the passage of the Petroleum Bill and the Sovereign Wealth Bill in the Senate to stockholders on the London Stock Exchange (LSE).
The oil is falling, the oil is falling!
The oil is falling, the oil is falling!
Oil prices are dropping dramatically. Something that consumers have been waiting on: lower prices at the pump in addition to lower energy costs.