{"id":246539,"date":"2005-02-08T10:42:43","date_gmt":"2005-02-08T15:42:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2005\/02\/nuclear-security-equipment-set-for-grand-bahama"},"modified":"2005-02-08T10:42:43","modified_gmt":"2005-02-08T15:42:43","slug":"nuclear-security-equipment-set-for-grand-bahama","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2005\/02\/nuclear-security-equipment-set-for-grand-bahama","title":{"rendered":"Nuclear Security Equipment Set For Grand Bahama"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Equipment for the multi-million dollar &#8220;Megaports&#8221; nuclear security initiative in Grand Bahama is due to arrive in the next 30 to 60 days, United States Embassy officials told The Tribune yesterday.<br \/>\n<P><br \/>\nThis announcement comes as the Department of Homeland Security yesterday released its porposal for the 2006 budget, listing an increase of $5.4 million over last year&#8217;s budget for the new Container Security Initiative (CSI), also known as &#8220;Megaports&#8221; bringing the budget request for the programme to a total of $138.8 million.<br \/>\n<P><br \/>\nMichael Taylor, Chief Political, Economics and Public Relations Officer in the US Embassy, explained that Freeport had been chosen as a pilot for the new programme because it is among the 20 busiest ports in the world.<br \/>\n<P><br \/>\nThe Bahamas will be the first country in the Caribbean to use the new equipment for the detection of nuclear material.<br \/>\n<P><br \/>\nThe initiative was created by the US Department of Energy&#8217;s National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) and is aimed at stopping illicit shipments of nuclear and other radioactive material.<br \/>\n<P><br \/>\nRobert Witajewski, Charge d&#8217;Affaires at the US Embassy and Ruth Millar, Financial Secretary at the Ministry of Finance, signed the co-operative agreement on behalf of bith their repsective governments.<br \/>\n<P><br \/>\n<B>Source: Karin Herig, The Tribune<\/B><\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Bahamas will be the first country in the Caribbean to use the new equipment for the detection of nuclear material.<\/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-246539","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-headlines"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246539","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=246539"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246539\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=246539"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=246539"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=246539"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}