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[...] candia@nasguard.com Nassau, The Bahamas Is the owner of the company harvesting aragonite at Ocean Cay in The Bahamas also an investor in a company in the United States buying aragonite from Ocean [...]

[...] that claims the company is making substantial sums of money from its aragonite operation at Ocean Cay are not true. The Bahamas National Citizens Coalition, National Congress of Trade Unions of The [...]

[...] Great Bahama Bank, a new island is emerging from the sea. Although it bears the appealing name Ocean Cay, this new island is not, and never will be, a palm-fringed paradise of the sort the Bahamian [...]

[...] to do these things,” he said. Currently, the only major aragonite mining operation exists on Ocean Cay. That project is carried out by Sandy Cay Development Company Limited under a 25-year lease [...]

[...] -swell of support has been palpable, and has come as a reaction to a mis-judged statement from Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar. Last month, during an interview in New York, she ducked and dived [...]

[...] Added Tax (VAT), the three leading government voices in financial affairs, including the Prime Minister, agreed. “You would need a payroll tax of 20-25 per cent to equal what a VAT of 15 per [...]

[...] strong opposition from the business community to the originally planned 15 percent VAT rate, Prime Minister Perry Christie announced in the House of Assembly last Wednesday that VAT will now be [...]

[...] has become most open-minded though, is in the role of the maximum political leader, or prime minister, simply because it gives them more power, and authority. This is shown where, according to [...]

[...] . Above all, we need these things to be attained using methods that don’t include the Bahamian government borrowing money to fully finance entire projects, leaving the Bahamian people with [...]

[...] not take a Sherlock Holmes to figure out who owes hundreds of millions of dollars to the Bahamian government in uncollected property taxes. Value-added tax is being implemented because the government [...]

[...] frequently emphasised that he did not wish to “cast aspersions” on the decisions of the Bahamian government, but he nonetheless raised several concerns about the policy measures this country has [...]

[...] Cay, this new island is not, and never will be, a palm-fringed paradise of the sort the Bahamian government promotes in travel ads. No brace of love doves would ever choose Ocean Cay for a honeymoon; [...]

[...] fact, not Bahamian, and/or are not living/have not lived in or near to the end results of illegal immigration in a small country of islands like ours. Rarely are these big-mouthed voices the voices of [...]

[...] far beyond their desire for a better life; no one wants to deny them that in principle. But illegal immigration of Haitians to the Bahamas is really a multi-pronged problem, and it is very similar in [...]

[...] are now wreaking havoc on our modern day Bahamas. The many issues resulting from illegal immigration did not occur overnight and will not be solved overnight. It will take a sustained effort [...]

[...] of us.” Recently, the Bahamas has been the subject of fierce criticism over its position on illegal immigration. Last September, Foreign Affairs and Immigration Minister Fred Mitchell announced new [...]

[...] law enforcement is operating has changed. It sends out a signal that this is a place that illegal migrants should not come. It is that psychological mindset that we are seeking to break. While many [...]

[...] are toward them. I am not suggesting that we have a welcoming committee to wave through illegal migrants. I am saying that we must fix the immigration issue and be honest with ourselves if we [...]

[...] prison in a mass prison break earlier this month may have been apprehended with a group of illegal migrants who were caught in Bahamian waters, Haitian Ambassador to The Bahamas Antonio Rodrigue said [...]

[...] to a small country is the question of can you continue to absorb hundreds and thousands of illegal migrants coming into a country undocumented knowing what your obligations are in the international [...]

[...] the weekend slammed the country’s recently implemented immigration policies and accused The Bahamas government of discrimination and claimed that the recent raids on immigrants in the country were [...]

[...] emerged out of a National Review investigation into the aragonite industry and whether The Bahamas government is getting fair royalties. This angle is one we could not ignore as we present fair [...]

[...] Affairs and Immigration Minister Fred Mitchell, Ambassador Bocchit Edmond called on the Bahamas government to consider launching a public campaign designed to underscore the notion that “verbal [...]

[...] and power. In 2000, the AES Corporation bought the lease, hoping to convince The Bahamas government to agree to the establishment of a liquefied natural gas facility there. Amid a great deal [...]

[...] Alliance, a now defunct pro LGBT group, also greeted the passengers. It was unclear if Prime Minister Perry Christie offered any position on the matter. 2005 In September 2005, Miss Teen Bahamas Gari [...]

[...] VAT will introduce should it be implemented in the Bahamas. His comments indicate that Prime Minister Perry Christie’s conciliatory Mid-Year Budget address, in which he pledged that VAT would be [...]

[...] take place within the Christie administration’s five-year term. Since then, Prime Minister Perry Christie has announced several different deadlines for the vote, all dates the [...]

[...] must “be careful how we implement these taxes and when we implement them”. Prime Minister Perry Christie recently expressed confidence that the economy would improve over the next six [...]