{"id":39658,"date":"2013-09-23T11:02:18","date_gmt":"2013-09-23T15:02:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/?p=39658"},"modified":"2013-09-23T11:02:18","modified_gmt":"2013-09-23T15:02:18","slug":"reforms-promised-for-surrey-industry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2013\/09\/reforms-promised-for-surrey-industry","title":{"rendered":"Reforms Promised For Surrey Industry"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"Long sought-after rate increases for horse and carriage drivers are finally on the horizon, according to Transport Minister Glenys Hanna-Martin.<\/p>\n

Mrs Hanna-Martin confirmed yesterday that widespread reform of the surrey industry could be realised within the next two months, with talks between owners and regulators progressing smoothly.<\/p>\n

Mrs Hanna-Martin said: \u201cWe are in the final stages of an action plan which is expected create a new paradigm in the industry.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe strategies forthcoming will involve issues relative to stabling, to ensuring there is qualified personnel to inspect the animals because we have veterinarians, but I am being advised that there is no one who is specialized.\u201d<\/p>\n

She added: \u201cAlso in the discussion is the increase in the rates, which have not changed since the 1960s.\u201d<\/p>\n

Mrs Hanna-Martin said there were some five or six horse and carriage owners, adding that strategies discussed focused on quality training for drivers and new tour routes.<\/p>\n

The Cabs and Hackney Board met with stakeholders and invited observers on Wednesday, according to Mrs Hanna Martin, who said the group has set a fixed timeline for the implementation of modernized regulations, a review of operations at Prince George Wharf, and the upgrade of carriages.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Widespread reform of the surrey industry could be coming within the next two months, so says the government. Hopefully the reform will really prove beneficial to the most important aspect: the horses!<\/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":[12],"tags":[63,311,33,73],"class_list":["post-39658","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-headlines","tag-animals","tag-family","tag-tourism","tag-travel-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39658","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=39658"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39658\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39658"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39658"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39658"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}