{"id":15892,"date":"2011-12-05T09:10:31","date_gmt":"2011-12-05T14:10:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/?p=15892"},"modified":"2011-12-05T09:10:31","modified_gmt":"2011-12-05T14:10:31","slug":"political-tribalism-can-hurt-tourism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2011\/12\/political-tribalism-can-hurt-tourism","title":{"rendered":"Political Tribalism Can Hurt Tourism"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_15898\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-15898\" style=\"width: 250px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-15898\" title=\"richard-skerritt\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/richard-skerritt-250x187.jpg\" alt=\"Richard Skerritt\" width=\"250\" height=\"187\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/richard-skerritt-250x187.jpg 250w, https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/richard-skerritt-150x112.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/richard-skerritt.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-15898\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">CTO Chairman Richard Skerritt<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Chairman of the Caribbean Tourism Organisation (CTO), Sen. Richard  Skerritt has warned the region not to allow local political partisan  interests to undermine the Caribbean\u2019s main income earner.<\/p>\n<p>Skerritt, who is also Minister of Tourism and International Transport in  St Kitts and Nevis, said given the challenges of the current world  economy, there is an urgent need for all sectors in each island to work  closer together.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking at a tourism seminar in Grenada, he said local politicians must  put aside their own partisan interests to ensure that the region\u2019s  tourism sector survives these times.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur tourism must be protected from the partisan tribalism that often  divides us in these islands. We don\u2019t have to like each other to work  together in the national interest,\u201d Skerritt explained.<\/p>\n<p>The St Kitts and Nevis tourism minister said the common national  interest of preserving the crucial tourism sector must trump all other  considerations.<\/p>\n<p>Skerritt said an eminent danger to regional tourism is what he called local \u201cpolitical stupidity.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cOur tourism must be protected from the partisan tribalism that often divides us in these islands. We don\u2019t have to like each other to work together in the national interest.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"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":[100,168,33],"class_list":["post-15892","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","tag-caribbean-2","tag-politics-2","tag-tourism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15892","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\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15892"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15892\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15892"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15892"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15892"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}