{"id":247132,"date":"2005-06-06T11:10:34","date_gmt":"2005-06-06T15:10:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2005\/06\/caribbean-may-lose-billions-due-to-new-passport-rules"},"modified":"2005-06-06T11:10:34","modified_gmt":"2005-06-06T15:10:34","slug":"caribbean-may-lose-billions-due-to-new-passport-rules","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2005\/06\/caribbean-may-lose-billions-due-to-new-passport-rules","title":{"rendered":"Caribbean &#8216;May Lose Billions&#8217; Due To New Passport Rules"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Caribbean could lose billions of dollars after the US government implements new passport regulations requiring its citizens to have a valid passport when travelling to the region.<br \/>\n<P><br \/>\nA study by Caribbean Hotel Association (CHA) on the economic impact of the new passport regulation concluded that the Caribbean could lose as much as $2.6 billion in earnings from visitor arrivals and more than 188,000 peple working in the tourism and travel sector could lose their jobs.<br \/>\n<P><br \/>\nThese findings were revealed at the Caribbean Tourism Organisation Board of Directors meeting in New York on June 2.<br \/>\n<P><br \/>\nThe United States has proposed that these security measures go into effect January 2006, for all Americans re-entering the US from the Caribbean region.<br \/>\n<P><SMALL>Source Kilah Rolle, The Tribune<\/SMALL><\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The US has proposed that the new security measures go into effect January 2006, for all Americans re-entering the US from the Caribbean region.<\/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-247132","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-headlines"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247132","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=247132"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247132\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=247132"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=247132"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=247132"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}