{"id":244538,"date":"2003-12-03T11:27:56","date_gmt":"2003-12-03T16:27:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2003\/12\/christie-voices-concerns-over-uk-relations"},"modified":"2003-12-03T11:27:56","modified_gmt":"2003-12-03T16:27:56","slug":"christie-voices-concerns-over-uk-relations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2003\/12\/christie-voices-concerns-over-uk-relations","title":{"rendered":"Christie Voices Concerns Over UK Relations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mr. Christie was among several leaders in the region who met with Mr. Blair at the CARICOM\/UK forum annual breakfast meeting yesterday.<br \/>\n<P><br \/>\nIn a conference call from London to reporters in Nassau Mr. Christie said he was &#8220;troubled and concerned &#8221; that the British government seemed to have surrendered their pre-eminence in its relations with the Bahamas, allowing the US to form stronger ties.<br \/>\n<P><br \/>\n&#8220;If that was the case I understood that it was because of our proximity to the United States and the common interest that we shared on safety and drug trafficking and alien smuggling.&#8221;<br \/>\n<P><br \/>\n<B>Source: Cara Brennen, The Tribune<\/B><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prime Minister Perry Christie expressed his disappointment about the &#8220;lukewarm UK-Bahamas relations&#8221; to British Prime Minister Tony Blair during a meeting with other Caribbean leaders in London.<\/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-244538","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-headlines"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244538","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=244538"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244538\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=244538"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=244538"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=244538"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}