{"id":35213,"date":"2013-05-02T08:15:36","date_gmt":"2013-05-02T12:15:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/?p=35213"},"modified":"2013-05-02T08:15:36","modified_gmt":"2013-05-02T12:15:36","slug":"bahamas-warned-on-aviation-deficiencies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2013\/05\/bahamas-warned-on-aviation-deficiencies","title":{"rendered":"Bahamas Warned On Aviation Deficiencies"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_22763\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-22763\" style=\"width: 200px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-22763\" title=\"llewellyn-boyer-cartwright\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/llewellyn.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/llewellyn.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/llewellyn-150x112.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-22763\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Llewellyn Boyer-Cartwright<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The Bahamian economy will be impacted \u201cacross the board\u201d if deficiencies in its aviation safety regime are not rapidly addressed, top industry executives warned yesterday, with airline expansion plans and a proposed Aircraft Registry having to be placed on hold.<\/p>\n<p>Reacting to Tribune Business\u2019s exclusive revelation that the Bahamas had the worst aviation safety regime in the entire Americas\u2019 region, Captain Randy Butler, Sky Bahamas\u2019 chief executive and president, said this nation had effectively been \u201cnamed and shamed\u201d by global watchdogs.<\/p>\n<p>He emphasised, though, that the Bahamian aviation industry was safe &#8211; the problem being not the industry\u2019s safety record, but rather the lack of an oversight regime to govern this.<\/p>\n<p>And Llewellyn Boyer-Cartwright, the Callenders &amp; Co attorney and partner, warned that if the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) downgraded the Bahamas from a Category One to Category Two status following its upcoming May 13 inspection, the economic impact would be \u201cimmediate\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Bahamian economy could be seriously impacted if deficiencies in its aviation safety regime are not quickly addressed. The country has already effectively been \u201cnamed and shamed\u201d by global watchdogs.<\/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":[331,40,49],"class_list":["post-35213","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","tag-aviation","tag-government","tag-law"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35213","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=35213"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35213\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35213"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35213"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}