{"id":244183,"date":"2003-10-16T12:16:45","date_gmt":"2003-10-16T16:16:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2003\/10\/mitchell-gets-firm-with-us"},"modified":"2003-10-16T12:16:45","modified_gmt":"2003-10-16T16:16:45","slug":"mitchell-gets-firm-with-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2003\/10\/mitchell-gets-firm-with-us","title":{"rendered":"Mitchell Gets Firm With US"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>He believed that tha US should find it equally embarrassing as the Bahamas that &#8220;our head of state and her entourage were subjected to a thorough search at the Miami International Airport.&#8221;<br \/>\n<P><br \/>\nGovernor General Dame Ivy Dumont travelling with her husband, Reginald Dumont and her aidde-de-campe were searched on October 5 as they stopped in Miami on their way to the Caribbean.<br \/>\n<P><br \/>\nAn official protest was lodged with US Secretary of Sate Colin Powell.<br \/>\n<P><br \/>\nMr. Mitchell said, &#8220;Apparently that government&#8217;s protocol needs to be amended as they do not recognise the Governor General of a country as the head of state.&#8221;<br \/>\n<P>Mr. Mitchell claimed that different countries hold varying regard for persons of authority. Some countries do not associate certain titles with prominence and importance.&#8221;<br \/>\n<P><br \/>\nIt was reported that on Tuesday evening, US Embassy chief of political, economic and public affairs Robert Kerr personally contacted Mr. Mitchell and expressed regret at what had happened.<br \/>\n<P><br \/>\n<B>Source: Danielle Stubbs, The Tribune<\/B><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Foreign Affairs Minister Fred Mitchell suggested yesterday that the US &#8216;amend their protocol procedures.&#8217;<\/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-244183","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-headlines"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244183","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=244183"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244183\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=244183"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=244183"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=244183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}