{"id":46951,"date":"2014-01-20T10:20:25","date_gmt":"2014-01-20T15:20:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/target\/crime-costs-bahamas-multi-millionaires-investment-project"},"modified":"2014-01-20T10:21:04","modified_gmt":"2014-01-20T15:21:04","slug":"crime-and-third-world-mentality-destroying-the-bahamas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2014\/01\/crime-and-third-world-mentality-destroying-the-bahamas","title":{"rendered":"Crime and ‘Third-World’ Mentality Destroying The Bahamas"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"The Democratic National Alliance\u2019s (DNA) leader yesterday said crime fears had cost the Bahamas a job-creating investment by a \u201cmulti-millionaire client\u201d, as he likened doing business in this nation to \u201chell\u201d.<\/p>\n

Branville McCartney told Tribune Business that the Bahamas \u201ccontinues to put tremendous hurdles\u201d in the way of investors coming to its shores, with local entrepreneurs enjoying an equally hard time.<\/p>\n

A former immigration minister, he described one such hurdle as the \u201cbureaucracy and red tape\u201d of the work permit and permanent residency processes, urging that these be \u201cstreamlined\u201d.<\/p>\n

And, turning his attention to this week\u2019s highly publicise detention of a top UBS (Bahamas) executive by the Immigration Department, Mr McCartney said the whole episode sent a message that the Bahamas was still living \u201cin the Third World\u201d.<\/p>\n

He added that the heavy-handed treatment allegedly meted out to Emmanuel Fiaux had embarrassed not just the Government but the entire Bahamas.<\/p>\n

And Mr McCartney called for Immigration to issue an \u201cacross the board\u201d apology, going beyond the Swiss banker, encompassing the numerous persons apprehended while waiting – in some cases for \u201cmonths and months\u201d – for their work permit renewal applications to be processed.<\/p>\n

Calling for the Bahamas to become \u201cmore progressive\u201d, the DNA leader said the \u201cThird World mindset\u201d of its leaders meant it was stuck in a rut and failing to tackle key issues.<\/p>\n

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\u201cThis is so Third World and continues to happen.\u201d<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Suggesting that continuing high crime levels, and the fear of crime, was starting to deter foreign direct investment vital to the Bahamian economy, Mr McCartney told Tribune Business: \u201cI had a client call me yesterday, a multi-millionaire client.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe had a group of persons wishing to come over to the Bahamas to invest. He said to me: \u2018McCartney, we are pulling out of the proposed investment, and you know why? Because of crime\u2019.<\/p>\n

Click here to read the complete article at tribune242.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Lawyer says fear of crime had cost the Bahamas a job-creating investment by a \u201cmulti-millionaire client\u201d, as he likened doing business in this nation to \u201chell\u201d. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":31592,"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":[153,31,98,289],"class_list":["post-46951","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-headlines","tag-business-2","tag-crime","tag-financial","tag-investments"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46951","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=46951"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46951\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31592"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46951"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46951"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46951"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}