Bahama News

  1. Banking on Grand Bahama Real Estate: Shoreline Bahamas Almost Sold Out: Eight Custom Homes Remain Available (PRWeb) - Grand Bahama Island’s Shoreline community is nearly complete, with only eight luxury homes ranging in price from $850,000 to $1.5 million still available. The master-planned, single-family home community has filled quickly, as despite the economy, U.S. and Canadian residents show interest in Bahamas real estate due to its warmer weather and tropical lifestyle. (PRWeb Mar 13, 2010) Read the full ...
  2. Banking on Grand Bahama Real Estate: Shoreline Bahamas Almost Sold Out: Eight Custom Homes Remain Available (PRWeb via Yahoo! News) - Grand Bahama Island’s Shoreline community is nearly complete, with only eight luxury homes ranging in price from $850,000 to $1.5 million still available. The master-planned, single-family home community has filled quickly, as despite the economy, U.S. and Canadian residents show interest in Bahamas real estate due to its warmer weather and tropical lifestyle.
  3. Tourism council aims to leverage local hotel stays with upcoming Bahamas cruises from port (The Palm Beach Post) - Tourism council aims to leverage local hotel stays with upcoming Bahamas cruises from port
  4. The Bahamas expands its network for international exchange of tax information (OECD) - and Sweden ). The Bahamas had previously signed 11 such agreements – including agreements with important regional and economic partners Mexico, the United States and the United Kingdom.
  5. Caribbean Cruise Line Expands Services at Port of Palm Beach with Flagship Bahamas Celebration, Renews Commitment to ... (PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance) - Caribbean Cruise Line plans to begin service to the Bahamas out of the Port of Palm Beach starting March 15. With its new flagship, the Bahamas Celebration, Caribbean Cruise Line will be the first multi-day cruise line to operate out of the port since 1966, according to port officials.
  6. Mrs. William Jeffery Lott (The Lafayette Daily Advertiser) - Ashley Brooke Hulin and William Jeffery Lott were united in matrimony on Saturday, February 6, 2010 in Nassau, Bahamas. After the ceremony, an outdoor dinner reception was held for all guests, after which the bride and groom dined privately by candlelight on the beach.
  7. Tommy Bahamas approved for downtown Laguna (Laguna News Post) - LAGUNA BEACH – Though Tommy Bahamas can be called a formula-based business, the store and restaurant approved to open downtown aims to be unique. The Planning Commission approved a permit Wednesday for the business to fill the ground floor of the...
  8. Bahamas Achieves White-Listing, (Tax-News.com) - The Bahamas has achieved a place on the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) ‘white list’ following the signing of Tax Information Exchange Agreements (TIEAs) with the seven Nordic economies of Denmark, the Faroe Islands, Finland, Greenland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden, on March 10.
  9. Bahamas removed from tax haven list (AP via Yahoo! Finance) - The Bahamas has been removed from an international list of uncooperative tax havens by signing information exchange pacts with several Nordic nations.
  10. World Indoor Championships Results (AP via Yahoo! Sports) - DOHA, Qatar (AP) -- Results Sunday from the World Indoor Championships (all distances in meters): Men Finals 800-- 1, Abubaker Kaki, Sudan, 1:46.23. 2, Boaz Kiplagat Lalang, Kenya, 1:46.39. 3, Adam Kszczot, Poland, 1:46.69. 4, Ismail Ahmed Ismail, Sudan, 1:46.90. 5, Jakub Holua, Czech Republic, 1:47.28. 6, Luis Alberto Marco, Spain, 1:48.99. 3,000-- 1, Bernard Lagat, United States, 7:37.97. 2 ...