{"id":30700,"date":"2013-01-25T08:53:23","date_gmt":"2013-01-25T13:53:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/?p=30700"},"modified":"2013-01-25T08:53:23","modified_gmt":"2013-01-25T13:53:23","slug":"exuma-residents-support-sandals-emerald-bay-acquisition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2013\/01\/exuma-residents-support-sandals-emerald-bay-acquisition","title":{"rendered":"Exuma Residents Support Sandals&#8217; Emerald Bay Acquisition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sandals loves Exuma and Exuma loves Sandals<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-30708\" title=\"sandals-exuma\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/sandals-exuma.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/sandals-exuma.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/sandals-exuma-150x112.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/>That is the general feeling of several Exuma residents who say their island\u2019s economy has bounced back in the three years since a broken world economy forced Four Seasons to close its Emerald Bay, Exuma property.<\/p>\n<p>Almost immediately Sandals made the move to acquire the property, after the embattled Four Seasons closed its doors and left hundreds of Exumians out of work.<\/p>\n<p>And, when the complaints of a lower pay scale than Four Seasons and a lack of community involvement that beset Sandals in it\u2019s first days on Emerald Bay were done, according to businessman Ricardo Morley, Exuma began to reap benefits from the Caribbean\u2019s largest hotel chain.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Morley, who owns Shop Rite Mart in George Town, said Exuma saw growth after Sandals came to the island \u2013 it brought with it new airlift that was subsidised by the resort.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sandals has made a positive impact in Exuma, amongst the residents and on the economy so it was well-received when the company decided to acquire the failed Four Seasons Grand Isle Resort and Spa.<\/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":[3],"tags":[297,229,418],"class_list":["post-30700","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","tag-exuma","tag-resorts","tag-sandals"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30700","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=30700"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30700\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30700"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30700"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30700"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}