{"id":35012,"date":"2013-04-26T10:15:39","date_gmt":"2013-04-26T14:15:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/?p=35012"},"modified":"2013-04-29T10:25:02","modified_gmt":"2013-04-29T14:25:02","slug":"baha-mar-confirms-immigration-dilemma","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2013\/04\/baha-mar-confirms-immigration-dilemma","title":{"rendered":"Baha Mar Confirms Immigration Dilemma"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Following shock and public scrutiny over an Immigration raid at Atlantis earlier this week<\/a>, Baha Mar confirms that it had its own Immigration\u00a0predicament when five senior engineers at the Sheraton were questioned and detained by officials on their lunch break.<\/p>\n

Robert “Sandy” Sands, senior vice-president of external and governmental affairs for Baha Mar, confirmed the incident, which happened on Wednesday, April 24, 2013.<\/p>\n

“They approached a number of our expatriate staff at one of our hotels, the Sheraton, during the lunch period,” he told The Tribune. “But we were able to satisfy the officers – who were respectful, I want to make that very clear – that we had the necessary paperwork that was in process and approvals etcetera from the Immigration Department.<\/p>\n

The officials intercepted the staff in public view, during working hours. But officials agreed to move the conversation to a private area, where the matter was resolved.<\/p>\n

“Five were in fact detained, temporarily,” Sands said, “and upon documentation that we provided were released.”<\/p>\n

Those five engineers are of American and English nationalities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Following public scrutiny over an unnecessary Immigration raid at Atlantis earlier this week, Baha Mar confirms that five senior engineers were questioned and detained by officials on their lunch break. <\/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":[12],"tags":[27,1625,41,1626],"class_list":["post-35012","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-headlines","tag-baha-mar","tag-gestapo","tag-immigration","tag-unnecessary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35012","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=35012"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35012\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35012"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35012"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35012"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}