Opinion - The Bahamas Guide

Fiscal Gyrations and Attempted Justifications?

Financial Secretary Simon Wilson, while speaking at Bahamas Chamber of Commerce State of the Economy 2017 event last week finally publicly acknowledged they are implementing the Coalition for Responsible Taxation recommendation that they needed to get the tax dodgers...

The Forgotten Island: Freeport, Grand Bahama

Business, Grand Bahama, Opinion

By Terrence Gape Adapted from a speech from Terrence Gape at today’s Grand Bahama Chamber of Commerce Luncheon in March 2015. My speech today is titled “The Forgotten Island” because for years I have been saying that the only Investors that we get in Freeport...

Letter To The Editor: Bless The Pindlings Our Lord and Saviour

Opinion

Dear Editor, Journalists from the three largest Bahamian newspapers committed sacrilege by publishing the story of Dame Marguerite Pindling owing more than $300,000 in real property taxes for her palatial $10 million mansion in the upscale Skyline Heights community....

Op-Ed: The Lack of Government Transparency in the Bahamas

Opinion, Politics

by Lemarque Campbell “Indeed, if I may be permitted a brief burst of boastful pride, there is nothing in the whole of my more than 40 consecutive years in front line politics of which I am more proud than the fact that there has never been any serious allegation of...

Critical Need for Environmental Protection Legislation

Opinion

by FREDERICK R. M. SMITH, Q.C. The Bahamas is in critical and dire need of an Environmental Protection Act. This legislation has been promised in the past by both the FNM and PLP governments. As the Bahamas broadens its industrial investment profile; encourages large...

Bahamas Agricultural Subsidies are a Waste of Taxpayer Dollars

Opinion, Politics

In simple terms subsidies are a waste of taxpayer dollars. The Bahamas has seen no end of ideas to protect Bahamian farmers (read about some the United States recent subsidy boondoggles here http://bit.ly/JxTd7l) yet, the consultants, bureaucrats and politicians...

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