{"id":35083,"date":"2013-04-29T09:28:24","date_gmt":"2013-04-29T13:28:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/?p=35083"},"modified":"2013-04-29T09:39:35","modified_gmt":"2013-04-29T13:39:35","slug":"immigration-farce-hurt-bahamas-reputation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2013\/04\/immigration-farce-hurt-bahamas-reputation","title":{"rendered":"Immigration Farce Hurt Bahamas Reputation"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"A former Immigration minister urged the Department to conduct investigations with \u201cmore decorum\u201d, adding that the recent incident at Atlantis \u201cdoes not bode well for the reputation of the country\u201d.<\/p>\n

Branville McCartney, who acted as minster of state for immigration under the former Ingraham administration, said that while Immigration officers had the right to \u201ccarry out the law\u201d, the heavy-handed way in which they tried to enforce it – in front of Atlantis\u2019s tourist guests – had created potential reputational damage for the Bahamas.<\/p>\n

And the Democratic National Alliance (DNA) said further damage was being done to the Bahamas\u2019 reputation as an attractive destination for business and foreign direct investment (FDI) by the seeming confusion surrounding the Government\u2019s work permit\/Immigration policy.<\/p>\n

Mr McCartney said the initial House of Assembly statement by Fred Mitchell, minister responsible for immigration, was then contradicted by both Prime Minister Perry Christie and Khaalis Rolle, minister of state for investments, who said the issue was merely put out for \u201cpublic discussion\u201d and was not a \u2018set-in-stone\u2019 policy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Bahamas Immigration’s heavy-handed buffoonery in front of tourists at Atlantis \u201cdoes not bode well for the reputation of the country\u201d as former Immigration minister Branville McCartney said.<\/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":[1631,41,229,1619,1344],"class_list":["post-35083","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-headlines","tag-bahamian","tag-immigration","tag-resorts","tag-toursim","tag-work-permits"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35083","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=35083"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35083\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35083"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35083"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35083"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}