{"id":7151,"date":"2011-03-18T08:59:24","date_gmt":"2011-03-18T12:59:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/?p=7151"},"modified":"2011-03-18T09:52:38","modified_gmt":"2011-03-18T13:52:38","slug":"treasury-department-moves-into-new-building","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2011\/03\/treasury-department-moves-into-new-building","title":{"rendered":"Treasury Department Moves Into New Building"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_7173\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7173\" style=\"width: 200px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-7173\" title=\"treasuy-bldg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/treasuy-bldg1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/treasuy-bldg1.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/treasuy-bldg1-150x112.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-7173\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Building  The new Treasury Department building, situated East Street north, opposite Police Headquarters. (BIS photo\/Peter Ramsay) <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Treasury Department has a new home, a five-storey complex, East Street north, opposite Police Headquarters.<\/p>\n<p>Minister of Finance, Prime Minister Hubert A Ingraham and Minister of State, Zhivargo Laing, toured the building on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Treasurer Eugenia Cartwright, Senior Deputy Treasurer Mary Mitchell, and Deputy Treasurer Miriam Curtis accompanied them.\u00a0 The government is leasing the 30,000 square-foot building.<\/p>\n<p>Noting that the Public Treasury has had &#8220;inadequate and unacceptable&#8221; accommodation for many years, the Prime Minister expressed his &#8220;gratitude and thanks&#8221; to its staff who &#8220;continued to work notwithstanding the conditions under which they were working.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Although the government is spending more money for the new building, said the Prime Minister, &#8220;we have adequacy of space, the morale of our staff is very high, they are comfortable and secure.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We think it is money well spent,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>Bahamas Information Services<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Treasury Department has a new home, a five-storey complex, East Street north, opposite Police Headquarters.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"facebook_10223285771444175_51037792744":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[24,40],"class_list":["post-7151","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","tag-construction","tag-government"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7151","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7151"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7151\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}