{"id":239693,"date":"2002-10-08T11:57:38","date_gmt":"2002-10-08T15:57:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/?p=239693"},"modified":"2021-02-14T09:00:49","modified_gmt":"2021-02-14T14:00:49","slug":"europe-gives-5-million-promise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2002\/10\/europe-gives-5-million-promise","title":{"rendered":"Europe Gives $5 Million Promise"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The European Union (EU) has promised the Bahamian government $5 million to construct the Eugene Dupuch Law School, said Hugh Chase, Deputy Director at the Ministry of Trade and Industry.<\/P><\/p>\n<p><P>This was one of the many issues discussed by the Minister of Trade and Industry, Leslie Miller when he recently attended trade negotiations with the European Union in Brussels, belgium.<\/P><\/p>\n<p><P>Before this The Bahamas had asked for $2 million but the EU has promised to fund the entire amount.<\/P><\/p>\n<p><P>While the law school will be built on government land it will will be maintained and operated by the University of The West Indies (UWI). <\/P><\/p>\n<p><P>During the meeting, Ministers from the EU and 76 countries opened negotiations on a new trade partnership aimed at fighting poverty and integrating developing countries into the world economy.<\/P><\/p>\n<p><P>The economic partnership agreements also reinforce the ongoing WTO negotiations.<\/P><\/p>\n<p><P>&#8220;The key element of this new partnership is regional integration&#8230; larger markets will contribute to attracting both local and foreign investors,&#8221; said the EU.<\/P><\/p>\n<p><P><B>Source: The Tribune<\/B><\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Goodwill gesture to build law school<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","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":[],"class_list":["post-239693","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-headlines"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239693","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=239693"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239693\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":241387,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239693\/revisions\/241387"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=239693"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=239693"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=239693"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}