{"id":33146,"date":"2013-03-19T09:07:21","date_gmt":"2013-03-19T13:07:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/?p=33146"},"modified":"2013-03-19T09:07:21","modified_gmt":"2013-03-19T13:07:21","slug":"genting-group-to-operate-bahamas-resort","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2013\/03\/genting-group-to-operate-bahamas-resort","title":{"rendered":"Genting Group To Operate Bahamas Resort"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2013\/03\/genting-group-to-operate-bahamas-resort-33146.html\/casino-2\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-33149\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-33149\" title=\"casino\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/casino.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/casino.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/casino-150x112.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a>A Malaysian conglomerate will take over operations at a luxury resort on Bimini and invest US$100 million (S$124 million) in air and sea transportation to the tiny island.<\/p>\n<p>In a Monday speech to lawmakers, Bahamas Prime Minister Perry Christie announced that Genting Group will operate the Bimini Bay Resort and invest in a high-speed ship and aircraft to transport guests. Mr Christie says Genting is also developing a master plan for the island.<\/p>\n<p>Last year, the Malaysian developer announced that it planned to open a 100,000-square-foot casino on Bimini. It is expected to open in July.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Christie says Bimini&#8217;s roughly 2,000 residents will soon see a dramatic improvement in the local economy.<\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #888888;\">By Associated Press<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Malaysian conglomerate will take over operations at a luxury resort on Bimini and invest US$100 million in air and sea transportation to the tiny island.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"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":[9],"tags":[178,229,73],"class_list":["post-33146","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-travel","tag-casino","tag-resorts","tag-travel-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33146","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33146"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33146\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33146"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33146"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}