{"id":2084,"date":"2010-09-15T11:47:19","date_gmt":"2010-09-15T15:47:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/?p=2084"},"modified":"2010-09-15T11:47:19","modified_gmt":"2010-09-15T15:47:19","slug":"wto-will-force-significant-shift-in-bahamian-business","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2010\/09\/wto-will-force-significant-shift-in-bahamian-business","title":{"rendered":"WTO Will Force &#8216;Significant Shift&#8217; in Bahamian Business"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Chamber of Commerce president, Khaalis  Rolle, warns that the Bahamas will be unable to operate &#8220;at our collective minimum  standards&#8221; once it advances to full membership in the World Trade  Organisation (WTO).<\/p>\n<p>Rolle told the Tribune newspaper that this was a &#8220;major milestone&#8221; that would ultimately  require protectionist beliefs to be abandoned and an overhaul of the  country&#8217;s tax system.<\/p>\n<p>In <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tribune242.com\/09142010_WTO_business_Page1-5\">an article by Neil Hartnell<\/a>, the newspaper reports that Rolle described full WTO membership, and the process to achieve this, as &#8220;a  significant shift in the economic landscape of the Bahamas&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>The Chamber president said the private sector and individual entrepreneurs would be  required to &#8216;play by the rules&#8217; during all trade and economic activity,  with a major shift in culture and behaviour also required.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chamber of Commerce president, Khaalis Rolle, warns that full membership in the World Trade Organisation will force a &#8220;significant shift in the economic landscape of the Bahamas&#8221;.<\/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":[3],"tags":[29,101],"class_list":["post-2084","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","tag-economy","tag-trade"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2084","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=2084"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2084\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2084"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2084"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2084"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}