{"id":2229,"date":"2010-09-20T08:28:46","date_gmt":"2010-09-20T12:28:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/?p=2229"},"modified":"2010-09-20T08:28:46","modified_gmt":"2010-09-20T12:28:46","slug":"iom-helping-bahamians-reintegrate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2010\/09\/iom-helping-bahamians-reintegrate","title":{"rendered":"IOM Helping Bahamians Reintegrate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-2231\" title=\"garvey-burrows\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/garvey-burrows.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"135\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/garvey-burrows.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/garvey-burrows-150x101.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/>Garvey Burrows was born in The Bahamas on 8 March 1973 to a  Bahamian father and a Jamaican mother.\u00a0 Garvey and his family migrated  to the United States 31 years ago.<\/p>\n<p>After serving a prison sentence in the United States he was involuntarily returned to The Bahamas on 4 November 2009.<\/p>\n<p>Prior to his return flight, he had never visited or lived in  New Providence; he was born on Grand Bahama, another island in the  archipelago of The Bahamas.<\/p>\n<p>When Garvey arrived, he found himself in his country of birth  but without any financial or family support, no place to stay and no  identification documents, even to secure employment.<\/p>\n<p>With the assistance of the International Organization for Migration (IOM) Reintegration Project and one of  its partners, Great Commission Ministries, Garvey was provided with  temporary shelter and was eventually able to secure employment and a  place to stay.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After serving a prison sentence in the United States, Bahamian Garvey Burrows was returned to The Bahamas and, thanks to assistance from the IOM Reintegration Project, was able to set up his own small business.<\/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":[],"class_list":["post-2229","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2229","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=2229"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2229\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}