{"id":20654,"date":"2012-04-17T12:31:14","date_gmt":"2012-04-17T16:31:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/?p=20654"},"modified":"2012-04-17T12:31:14","modified_gmt":"2012-04-17T16:31:14","slug":"caribbean-leaders-press-us-president-on-security","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2012\/04\/caribbean-leaders-press-us-president-on-security","title":{"rendered":"Caribbean Leaders Press US President on Security"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_20656\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-20656\" style=\"width: 250px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-20656\" title=\"obama\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/obama-250x167.jpg\" alt=\"Barack Obama\" width=\"250\" height=\"167\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/obama-250x167.jpg 250w, https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/obama-150x100.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/obama.jpg 274w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-20656\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">US President Barack Obama<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Caribbean leaders pressed United States President Barack Obama for  greater support in securing the region from the traffic in illegal  narcotics and small arms. The leaders met in Cartagena, Colombia,  following the Sixth Summit of the Americas, which ended on Sunday  afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>A wide ranging discussion included sharing of ideas on enhancing the  role of small business, distance education, job creation, health,  information and communication technology, new systems and rules in the  US banking system, debt and the role of the G20 in assisting highly  indebted middle income countries.<\/p>\n<p>Obama told the group, which comprised Caribbean Community (CARICOM)  leaders and the president of the Dominican Republic, that the bonds  between the two sides were deep and that his country had followed  through on the initiatives identified at their previous meeting in Port  of Spain, Trinidad, in 2009.<\/p>\n<p>The US president, who was accompanied by his Secretary of State Hillary  Clinton and the US Trade Representative, Ron Kirk, indicated that he had  \u201cpersonally invested in the region\u201d and assured that there would be  follow through on the ideas presented at the meeting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Caribbean leaders, some of whom may be directly or indirectly involved in illegal narcotics, pressed US President Obama for greater support in securing the region from traffic in illegal narcotics and small arms.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"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":[12],"tags":[100,93,67,237,113],"class_list":["post-20654","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-headlines","tag-caribbean-2","tag-corruption","tag-drugs","tag-guns","tag-united-states"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20654","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\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20654"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20654\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20654"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20654"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20654"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}