{"id":4155,"date":"2010-11-16T11:53:50","date_gmt":"2010-11-16T16:53:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/?p=4155"},"modified":"2010-11-16T11:53:50","modified_gmt":"2010-11-16T16:53:50","slug":"more-bahamar-jobs-for-bahamians","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2010\/11\/more-bahamar-jobs-for-bahamians","title":{"rendered":"Ingraham Scores Thousands More Baha Mar Jobs for Bahamians"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Returning from a successful trip to China, Prime Minister Hubert Ingraham announced that he was able to negotiate a more favourable agreement with the Chinese regarding the Baha Mar development.\u00a0 The agreement will provide an  additional $200 million for Bahamian contractors which will create thousands of  additional jobs for Bahamians.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Ingraham&#8217;s fruitful talks with  the Chinese Export Import Bank and China State Construction Company allowed the two parties to reach a consensus on several matters of interest.<\/p>\n<p>The value of construction works to be subcontracted to Bahamians has  been doubled from $200 million to $400 million, creating thousands more  jobs for Bahamian contractors and subcontractors who will work on  elements of the Core Project in the largest award of contracts to  Bahamian contractors on any single project in the nation&#8217;s history, Mr  Ingraham said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The value of construction works to be subcontracted to Bahamians has been doubled from $200 million to $400 million, creating thousands more jobs for Bahamian contractors and subcontractors who work on the Baha Mar project.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"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":[27,91,24,72],"class_list":["post-4155","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","tag-baha-mar","tag-china","tag-construction","tag-employment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4155","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\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4155"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4155\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4155"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4155"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4155"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}