Delivering a progress report to the Bahamas Institute of Chartered Accountants yesterday, senior vice president of administration and external relations at Baha Mar Robert Sands said that the multi-billion dollar resort is on track to open by the end of spring 2015.

Commonwealth Bank’s 6,000-plus shareholders will have a little more money to spend during the holidays this year when the Bank issues a pre-Christmas extraordinary dividend of $.06 per share.