{"id":29341,"date":"2012-12-14T10:39:37","date_gmt":"2012-12-14T15:39:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/?p=29341"},"modified":"2012-12-14T10:51:09","modified_gmt":"2012-12-14T15:51:09","slug":"tourism-sorts-through-conflicts-of-interest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2012\/12\/tourism-sorts-through-conflicts-of-interest","title":{"rendered":"Tourism Sorts Through Conflicts of Interest"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"Ministry of Tourism executives felt the company at the centre of a probe into former minister, Vincent Vanderpool-Wallace, was embroiled in \u201cconflicts of interest\u201d because its principals reviewed a bidding process they were also participating in.<\/p>\n

Summarising a report into the relationship between the former minister and Tourism Marketing Alliance (TMA), current minister of tourism, Obie Wilchcombe, said three persons tied to the company – Jeffrey Toffler, Thomas Crockett and Michael Stone – also owned Destination Solutions 360, an entity that bid on the Ministry of Tourism\u2019s online booking solution tender.<\/p>\n

As a result of its $1.65 million advisory marketing contract with the Ministry of Tourism, Mr Wilchcombe said TMA was included in reviewing the bidding process that its principals\u2019 other entity was participating in.<\/p>\n

Outlining the findings of the report, which was done by Kikivarakis & Company and KRyS Global, Mr Wilchcombe told the House of Assembly that senior Ministry of Tourism officials felt \u201cpressured\u201d by Mr Vanderpool-Wallace to sign contracts with both TMA and ICON, companies that were thought to be related parties.<\/p>\n

Mr Wilchcombe said the report uncovered \u201cirregularities\u201d when it came to the review and approval of the TMA and ICON contracts, and raised questions about Mr Vanderpool-Wallace\u2019s links to the two companies and their principal executives.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The marketing company at the centre of a probe into Vincent Vanderpool-Wallace, was embroiled in \u201cconflicts of interest\u201d because its principals reviewed a bidding process in which they also participated.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","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":[5],"tags":[93,33],"class_list":["post-29341","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-corruption","tag-tourism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29341","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\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29341"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29341\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29341"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29341"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29341"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}