{"id":245439,"date":"2004-06-17T12:39:44","date_gmt":"2004-06-17T16:39:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2004\/06\/tardy-pm-caught-in-security-check"},"modified":"2004-06-17T12:39:44","modified_gmt":"2004-06-17T16:39:44","slug":"tardy-pm-caught-in-security-check","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2004\/06\/tardy-pm-caught-in-security-check","title":{"rendered":"Tardy PM Caught in Security Check"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><P>Prime Minister Perry Christie had to take off his shoes and go through a homeland security check in his socks while leaving the United States for the Bahamas last week. <\/P><\/p>\n<p><P>It was the second time in eight months that a major Bahamian figure had been subjected to a US airport check following Governor General Dame Ivy Dumont&#8217;s humiliation last October. <\/P><\/p>\n<p><P>The embarrassing incident happened after Mr. Christie attended a Baptist revival meeting in North Carolina involving Bishop Neil Ellis. <\/P><\/p>\n<p><P>Christie was apparently late in notifying US authorities about his travel plans from Nassau to North Carolina. <\/P><\/p>\n<p><P>Also, on his way home, Mr. Christie reportedly made several changes to his travel plans. In addition, his office was late in notifying the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of his itinerary. <\/P><\/p>\n<p><P>The US government generally requires a 72 hours notice of a prime minister&#8217;s travel plans. This is done by the PM&#8217;s office notifying the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, which contacts the US Embassy, which notifies Washington. <\/P><br \/>\n<P><B>Source: The Tribune<\/B><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Late in notifying US authorities about his travel plans, PM Perry Christie was forced to suffer embarassing security check.<\/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-245439","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-headlines"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245439","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=245439"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245439\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=245439"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=245439"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=245439"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}