{"id":32942,"date":"2013-03-14T09:10:20","date_gmt":"2013-03-14T13:10:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/?p=32942"},"modified":"2013-03-14T09:46:46","modified_gmt":"2013-03-14T13:46:46","slug":"radical-permit-blocking-could-hurt-economy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2013\/03\/radical-permit-blocking-could-hurt-economy","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Radical&#8217; Permit Blocking Could Hurt Economy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-32948\" title=\"bahamas-immigration-customs\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/bahamas-immigration-customs.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/bahamas-immigration-customs.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/bahamas-immigration-customs-150x112.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/>The recently initiated attempt by the Christie administration to stop issuing work permits to non-Bahamian maids, housekeepers and labourers will seriously affect the country\u2019s economic development, said FNM MP Hubert Chipman.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Chipman, (FNM-St Anne\u2019s) is the Shadow Minister of Foreign Affairs and Immigration.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are greatly concerned,\u201d he said, \u201cthat the Minister might be using a heavy blunt instrument to tackle a vexing business and social problem for which skill and precision seem to be in order.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Chipman believes that government\u2019s proposals to enact the move by next year is excessively aggressive and should be cause for great concern among Bahamians.<\/p>\n<p>His press statement was in response to Foreign Affairs Minister Fred Mitchell\u2019s House of Assembly address on Tuesday at which time Mr. Mitchell stated that the government intends not to grant permits in areas where Bahamians are qualified to get the job done.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The recently initiated attempt by the Christie administration to stop issuing work permits to non-Bahamian labourers may negatively affect the country\u2019s economic development.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"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":[12],"tags":[41],"class_list":["post-32942","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-headlines","tag-immigration"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32942","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\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32942"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32942\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32942"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32942"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32942"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}