After completing a comprehensive course in tourism and hospitality, the first class of the Baha Mar megaresort's Leadership Development Institute graduated last week. Watch a ZNS Network news report here.

The Bahamas is to introduce a value added tax regime, with a 7.5 percent headline rate from January 1, 2015, according to the territory's latest budget for 2014/15, released on May 28, 2014. As well as delaying implementation for three months until January 1, 2015, the rate is halved from earlier proposals for a 15 per cent headline rate, and the regime will include fewer exemptions.