{"id":47006,"date":"2014-01-20T09:00:03","date_gmt":"2014-01-20T14:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/?p=47006"},"modified":"2014-01-20T09:20:44","modified_gmt":"2014-01-20T14:20:44","slug":"police-state-mentality-becoming-a-trend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2014\/01\/police-state-mentality-becoming-a-trend","title":{"rendered":"Police-State Mentality Becoming A Trend"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-47009\" title=\"police-state-sign\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/police-state-sign.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/police-state-sign.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/police-state-sign-150x112.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/>The Immigration Department was accused of \u201csystematically driving business from this country\u201d, as the Government moved swiftly to contain any negative fallout from Tuesday\u2019s detention of a top UBS (Bahamas) executive.<\/p>\n<p>Dionisio D\u2019Aguilar, Superwash\u2019s president, described as \u201coutrageous\u201d the apprehension, and temporary Detention Centre stay, of Emmanuel Fiaux, the East Bay Street bank\u2019s executive director.<\/p>\n<p>The businessman, a prominent critic of the Immigration Department and the Government\u2019s seemingly hardline work permit stance, said the incident involving Mr Fiaux threatened to damage the Bahamas\u2019 efforts to attract new foreign direct investment (FDI) and businesses to its shores at a time when they were most needed.<\/p>\n<p>Mr D\u2019Aguilar\u2019s comments came as Ryan Pinder, minister of financial services, revealed to Tribune Business that he visited UBS (Bahamas) at Tuesday lunchtime to personally apologise to Mr Fiaux for his treatment at Immigration\u2019s hands.<\/p>\n<p>Mr D\u2019Aguilar, the former Bahamas Chamber of Commerce president, said the Immigration Department appeared to be developing \u201ca trend\u201d for heavy handedness when it came to dealing with skilled, high-end expatriate workers.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Fiaux\u2019s detention comes within a year of Immigration officials entering Atlantis\u2019s premises to detain the resort\u2019s sea lion trainer, and haul her away in front of numerous tourists.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s another clear example of an Immigration Department that\u2019s completely out of control,\u201d Mr D\u2019Aguilar told Tribune Business.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s like a police state,\u201d the Superwash chief told Tribune Business.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Immigration Department was accused of \u201csystematically driving business from this country\u201d with its heavy-handedness that appears to be developing into a trend.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":47009,"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":[5],"tags":[153,40,41,38],"class_list":["post-47006","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","tag-business-2","tag-government","tag-immigration","tag-police"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47006","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=47006"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47006\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/47009"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47006"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47006"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47006"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}