{"id":1671,"date":"2010-09-02T19:48:51","date_gmt":"2010-09-02T23:48:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/?p=1671"},"modified":"2010-09-02T19:49:20","modified_gmt":"2010-09-02T23:49:20","slug":"tourism-minister-supports-sailing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2010\/09\/tourism-minister-supports-sailing","title":{"rendered":"Tourism Minister Pledges Support For Sailing &#8211; VIDEO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-1672\" style=\"margin-left: 10px; margin-right: 10px;\" title=\"sailing\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/sailing.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"215\" height=\"172\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/sailing.jpg 215w, https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/sailing-150x120.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 215px) 100vw, 215px\" \/>Minister of Tourism Vincent Vanderpool-Wallace met with members of the Bahamas Sailing Association recently.\u00a0 The minister pledged continued assistance and discussed long term plans to support more sailing and marine events in the Bahamas.<\/p>\n<p>The Bahamas Sailing Association has hosted a number of sailing events and regattas throughout the islands of The Bahamas. A fairly complete list of events and activities in The Bahamas can be found on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/calendar\/\">Bahamas Calendar<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>As a nation with over 100,000 squares miles of water within its  boundries, the Sailing Association would like to see even more emphasis  on sailing events and activities.<\/p>\n<p><object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"480\" height=\"295\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/8tsnA4h0sYI\" \/><embed type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"480\" height=\"295\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/8tsnA4h0sYI\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p>Anyone or any entity interested in the sport of sailing and in  developing the sport of sailing anywhere in The Bahamas should <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bahamassailing.org\/contact\/contact.html\">join the  Bahamas Sailing Association<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Minister of Tourism and Aviation, Mr Vincent Vanderpool-Wallace, met with members of the Bahamas Sailing Association recently to  pledge continued assistance and to discuss long term plans to support more sailing and marine events in the Bahamas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"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":[7],"tags":[79,97,88],"class_list":["post-1671","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports","tag-marine","tag-sailing","tag-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1671","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1671"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1671\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1671"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1671"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1671"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}