Dionisio D'Aguilar is the ideal MP Bahamians need in the House of Assembly

Dear Editor, Within 11 months, Bahamians will be heading back to the polls to determine who will govern their affairs between 2022 and 2027.

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License reforms remove cost of sales 'nightmare'

Both the current and immediate past Bahamas Chamber of Commerce presidents yesterday praised the Government for simplifying the way business license fees were calculated, telling Tribune Business the revised Bill would eliminate the complexity and "abuse" associated with gross profit calculations, while maintaining food retailers should have been given a special category.

Khaalis Rolle, the Cha...

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Island Pay Celebrates MasterCard Partnership with Client Giveaway

A few lucky customers of Island Pay Ltd. (Island Pay) were recently rewarded with a prepaid MasterCard debit card loaded with $500. This news follows last week’s celebrated launch of the world’s first Central Bank digital currency-linked card, which was created through an innovative partnership between Island Pay and MasterCard. This groundbreaking solution will increase the financial flexibil...

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Businessman: Over 50 of stores hit by road project

By NEIL HARTNELL

Tribune Business Editor

More than 50 per cent of the Superwash laundromat chain's locations will ultimately be impacted by the New Providence Road Improvement project, its president telling Tribune Business that for many impacted Bahamian-owned businesses the question was: "Can you survive the pain and agony

to get to the promised land?"

Arguing that the Government was coming ...

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51/49 BTC debate is 'irrelevant'

By NEIL HARTNELL

Tribune Business Editor

The argument over whether Cable & Wireless Communications (CWC) should own 51 per cent or 49 per cent of the Bahamas Telecommunications Company (BTC) is irrelevant, a former Bahamas Chamber of Commerce president said yesterday, because either way it will still have Board and management control at the privatised carrier.

Telling Tribune Business that CWC ...

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CWC to unlock BTC's 'Triple Play potential'

By NEIL HARTNELL

Tribune Business Editor

Cable & Wireless Communications (CWC) has the ability and regional knowledge to unlock the Bahamas Telecommunications Company's (BTC) 'Triple Play' potential to the ultimate benefit of Bahamian consumers, a former Chamber of Commerce president telling this newspaper that privatisation would ensure the 'tail no longer wags the dog' at the telecoms carrier....

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Operation Potcake

Sunday 13th January 2013  7:00 AM

Operation Potcake

On 10 January Operation Potcake kicks off and we?re all madly scrambling around to get the final bits and pieces in place. We have sourced the majority of our supplies, accommodation has been organized for most volunteers, funds are continuously coming in (we still need lots of donations!) and marketing has also begun. Teams are putting up promotional posters in their areas th...

Residents alarmed at plan for Soldier Road cemetery

SOLDIER Road residents are expressing concern over plans to develop a cemetery in the area.The cemetery is reportedly to be built immediately northeast of Kennedy Subdivision, next to Superwash on Soldier Road.Local resident Gloria Wallace expressed

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Davis: Budget offers no relief for ordinary people

Opposition Leader Philip Brave Davis charged yesterday that the 2017/2018 budget is "steeped" with financial benefits for families, other loved ones and friends of those in government, but is oppressive for the poor people in The Bahamas.
"When the FNM says it's the people's time, we are constrained to ask who are these people?" Davis said as he contributed to the budget debate in the House of Ass...

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D'Aguilar's company linked to another falsified invoice

Progressive Liberal Party (PLP) Chairman Bradley Roberts yesterday labeled Freetown candidate and owner of Superwash Limited Dionisio D'Aguilar a "serial tax dodger", revealing in several Bahamas Customs Department documents that the company was linked to another falsified invoice, this time on the shipment of 53 washers and dryers and 53 coin boxes.
D'Aguilar strongly rejected the tax dodger clai...

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