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Posted By:  zephyr
Posted On:  Oct 27, 2009

  Accelerate economic growth or face poverty growth, says International Monetary Fund (IMF) report

By INDERIA SAUNDERS ~ Guardian Business Reporter ~ Inderia@nasguard.com: The International Monetary Fund (IMF) is suggesting countries like The Bahamas are at a greater risk for expanding their poverty rates if reforms are not immediately made to expedite economic growth. It comes as...... [view]

Posted By:  zephyr
Posted On:  Oct 21, 2009

  Bahamas: Anglican Church backs govt's marital rape law

THE Anglican Church has joined several other religous denominations in throwing its full support behind the Government's efforts to make it illegal for a man to rape his wife. Delivering his Charge to the 109th session of the Anglican diocesan Synod, Archbishop Laish Boyd expressed his...... [view]

Posted By:  zephyr
Posted On:  Oct 19, 2009

  Reece Chipman - President of The Bahamas Institute of Chartered Accountants (BICA) - says: It's Time for Value Added Tax (VAT) in The Bahamas

By INDERIA SAUNDERS ~ Guardian Business Reporter ~ Inderia@nasguard.com: The president of the Bahamas Institute of Chartered Accountants (BICA) is acknowledging potential benefits to this nation's offshore stemming from a move to change this country's tax regime, specifically, an introduction...... [view]

Posted By:  zephyr
Posted On:  Oct 15, 2009

  Travolta Extortion Trial Bahamas: Pleasant Bridgewater Professed Her Innocence and Claimed She was the Victim of a Set-up by People She Trusted, Including the Official Opposition (PLP) Senate Leader Allyson Maynard-Gibson

By JUAN MCCARTNEY ~ Guardian Senior Reporter ~ juan@nasguard.com: An emotional Pleasant Bridgewater yesterday held back tears as she professed her innocence and claimed she was the victim of a set-up by people she trusted, including PLP Senate leader Allyson Maynard-Gibson, who she said told...... [view]

Posted By:  zephyr
Posted On:  Oct 6, 2009

  Travolta Extortion Trial Bahamas: Defense Attorney Murrio Ducille Suggests that Former Senator Pleasant Bridgewater was Entrapped

By JUAN MCCARTNEY ~ Guardian Senior Reporter ~ juan@nasguard.com: During the attempted extortion trial of former Senator Pleasant Bridgewater yesterday, defense attorney Murrio Ducille sought to portray the American attorney of actor John Travolta as a "devious and cunning" man who came to...... [view]

Posted By:  zephyr
Posted On:  Oct 5, 2009

  Bahamian Prime Minister Hubert Ingraham on Bank Secrecy and The Bahamas' Financial Services Sector

Banking secrecy is one of the pillars of The Bahamas' financial services sector and there's no plan to change that. This point was made by Prime Minister Hubert Ingraham during an interview with Reuters at the recent Americas Conference, held in Florida. He did stress, however, that The...... [view]

Posted By:  zephyr
Posted On:  Oct 2, 2009

  Travolta extortionists: greedy and stupid in equal measure

by Anthony L. Hall: When it was first reported that Bahamian Senator Pleasant Bridgewater (49) and ambulance driver Tarino Lightbourne (47) were arrested for attempting to extort $25 million from John Travolta, I’m sure we all thought they had something truly compromising on him (like...... [view]

Posted By:  zephyr
Posted On:  Oct 1, 2009

  Travolta Extortion Trial Bahamas: John Travolta testifies about alleged extortion plot

By JUAN MCCARTNEY ~ Guardian Senior Reporter ~ juan@nasguard.com: American actor John Travolta testified yesterday that he was told by his attorney that ambulance driver Tarino Lightbourne threatened that if Travolta did not pay him $25 million he would sell stories to international media...... [view]

Posted By:  zephyr
Posted On:  Sep 29, 2009

  Travolta Extortion Trial Bahamas: Senator Pleasant Bridgewater in police undercover sting operation

By JUAN MCCARTNEY, Guardian Senior Reporter, juan@nasguard.com: A Royal Bahamas Police Force detective yesterday testified that he was part of a team of officers who set up an undercover sting operation at the Sheraton Resort on Cable Beach earlier this year in order to make audio and video...... [view]

Posted By:  zephyr
Posted On:  Sep 27, 2009

  Formula for determining dues of UN Member States needs reform – Bahamas

The Bahamas called today for the United Nations to overhaul the scale of assessments that determines how much each Member State must pay to fund the running of the Organization, saying the current system is based on an unjust formula that punishes some countries. T. Brent Symonette, Deputy...... [view]

Posted By:  zephyr
Posted On:  Sep 23, 2009

  The Bahamas is among the top three most vulnerable Caribbean countries when it comes to climate change

Nassau, Bahamas [BIS]-- According to a report published by the World Bank, The Bahamas is among the top three most vulnerable Caribbean countries when it comes to climate change. For this reason, Minister of Tourism and Aviation, Sen. the Hon. Vincent Vanderpool-Wallace said that initiatives...... [view]

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