Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Finance Peter Turnquest addressed the General Conference of Ministers of the Caribbean Telecommunications Union yesterday. Read his remarks here. Deputy Prime Minister Turnquest gives welcome remarks at the Caribbean Telecommunications Union’s 35th Executive Council and 20th General Conference of Ministers during ICT Week at Atlantis Paradise Island November 28. (BIS Photo/Patrick Hanna)

Some 40 key policymakers from member states of the Caribbean Telecommunications Union and 100 professionals and executives are at the Atlantis resort on Paradise Island to participate in workshops, conferences and seminars all week this week. Pictured: Opening press conference for Information and Communication Technology (ICT) Week at Atlantis, Paradise Island, November 27, 2017.

Lombard Odier executives paid a courtesy call on Minister of Financial Services, Trade and Industry, and Immigration Brent Symonette, November 23, 2017 at the Ministry's offices. 

The Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) Mission Team paid a courtesy call on Minister of Financial Services, Trade & Industry and Immigration Brent Symonette this week. Pictured: Minister Symonette, (left) with IDB Country Representative Florencia Attademo-Hirt. (BIS Photos/Derek Smith)

In his address to the Bahamas Institute of Chartered Accountants event in Freeport last week, Minister of State for Grand Bahama Kwasi Thompson said that Grand Bahamians must seek out and promote opportunities. Minister of State for Grand Bahama, Senator Kwasi Thompson (left) chats at the seminar in Grand Bahama November 18, 2017. (BIS Photo/Andrew Coakley)

Prime Minister Dr Hubert Minnis welcomed the SLS Brand to The Bahamas during the Official Opening of the SLS Baha Mar November 17. 

Speaking to the House of Assembly November 15, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Finance Peter Turnquest gave details the government’s recent US$750 million bond issuance, which is expected to close November 21, 2017. 

The government is "aggressively" pursuing ways to boost the economy, according to the Minister of Financial Services, Trade and Industry and Immigration Brent Symonette. The Minister made the remark while addressing stakeholders during the Bahamas Institute of Chartered Accountants Accountants Week opening ceremony this week. Pictured: Minister Symonette addresses stakeholders during the BICA Accountants Week. (BIS Photos/Kristaan Ingraham)

Government is to set up a Deliverables Unit early next year to monitor and guide public finance projects. Watch a ZNS Network news report here. 

The Baha Mar resort on Cable Beach has welcomed 300 new employees, as SLS Baha Mar opens its doors to hotel guests for the first time, along with three new culinary outlets and bars.