The Tribune

MEMBERS of the Bahamas Investment Authority are in Geneva, Switzerland, this week for the four-day World Investment Forum (WIF).

State Minister for Investment Khaalis Rolle is scheduled to speak on the topic of how to finance the sustainable development goals at the forum, which opened on Monday and finishes tomorrow. WIF is a high-level, biennial assembly that provides a global platform to engage policy makers, the private sector and other stakeholders in discourse on foreign direct investment policy formulation and promotion.

Mr Rolle and Minister of Grand Bahama, Dr Michael Darville, are leading a delegation that includes the Director of Investments at the Investment Authority in the Office of the Prime Minister, Candia Ferguson, and project officers Melissa Forbes and Leslie Dorsette, from the Ministry of Grand Bahama.

In addition to the forum, the BIA will conduct presentations on investment opportunities in the Bahamas generally and in particular Grand Bahama.

Other countries participating at the forum include United States, United Arab Emirates, Jamaica, Dominican Republic, Zimbabwe, The Netherlands, the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe among others.

One thousand copies of The Bahamas Investor magazine were shipped to Geneva to be distributed at the WIF, which is expected to attract heads of states and government officials; executives of global companies and stock exchanges; sovereign wealth fund managers; investment treaty negotiators and heads of investment promotion agencies.

“We think it’s a very comprehensive publication that clearly indicates what’s taking place in the Bahamas in terms of investments,” said Mr Rolle.

“Whenever we travel to investment-related conferences, we take that magazine with us. When you have an independent publication that is of such high quality, it gives people confidence in the message that you are trying to communicate to them about the investment climate.”

The Bahamas Investor is produced by Etienne Dupuch Jr Publications Ltd, the leading publisher of business and tourism information in the Bahamas.