{"id":242080,"date":"2003-05-13T10:30:22","date_gmt":"2003-05-13T14:30:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2003\/05\/us-proposes-11-million-ftaa-aid-package-to-caribbean"},"modified":"2003-05-13T10:30:22","modified_gmt":"2003-05-13T14:30:22","slug":"us-proposes-11-million-ftaa-aid-package-to-caribbean","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2003\/05\/us-proposes-11-million-ftaa-aid-package-to-caribbean","title":{"rendered":"US Proposes $11 Million FTAA Aid Package To Caribbean"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to recent reports the United States has earmarked $11 million in aid for the Caribbean region to take part in future FTAA (Free Trade Area of the Americas) negotiations and other international agreements.<\/P><\/p>\n<p><P>Dr Roy Austin, United States Ambassador to Trinidad and Tobago said the aid represents the US government&#8217;s recognition that the small island states in the region will lack the resources to fully take part in negotiations and may consequently forgo any benefits the FTAA will bring.<\/P><\/p>\n<p><P>The two year project is being funded by the US Agency for International Development (USAID). Additional aims of the project are to build trade negotiating capacity and improve regional competitiveness. <\/P><\/p>\n<p><P><B>By Mike Godfrey, Tax-News.com<\/B><\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The two year project is being funded by the US Agency for International Development (USAID).<\/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":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-242080","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242080","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=242080"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242080\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=242080"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=242080"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=242080"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}