{"id":242284,"date":"2003-06-13T12:11:30","date_gmt":"2003-06-13T16:11:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2003\/06\/400000-to-improve-downtown"},"modified":"2003-06-13T12:11:30","modified_gmt":"2003-06-13T16:11:30","slug":"400000-to-improve-downtown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2003\/06\/400000-to-improve-downtown","title":{"rendered":"$400,000 To Improve Downtown"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Government has accordingly allocated $400,000 to rectifying these defects and with the help of the Nassau Tourism and Development Board (NTDB), hopes to raise an additional $100,000 from the private sector &#8211; to be used in what will be a joint Downtown Improvement Initiative.<br \/>\n<P><br \/>\nThe findings of a task force formed in February to assess the Bay Street tourism product were announced yesterday by the NTDB, who held a meeting with the downtown business community to share plans for the improcement initiative.<br \/>\n<P><br \/>\nGuest speakers Norman Solomon and Tourism Minister Obie Wilchcombe emphasised the necessity of cooperation between the government and private sector.<br \/>\n<P><B>Source: The Tribune<\/B><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The hundreds of deficiencies in the downtown tourism product must be addressed immediately, members of the busines community have been told.<\/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-242284","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242284","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=242284"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242284\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=242284"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=242284"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=242284"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}