{"id":4764,"date":"2010-12-01T22:04:33","date_gmt":"2010-12-02T03:04:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/?p=4764"},"modified":"2010-12-01T22:48:55","modified_gmt":"2010-12-02T03:48:55","slug":"building-permit-process-assessed-for-improvement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2010\/12\/building-permit-process-assessed-for-improvement","title":{"rendered":"Building Permit Process Assessed For Improvement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Ministry of Works said it had undertaken a review to assess how the building permit process could be speeded up while complying with existing legislation, but warned that its key goal was to ensure that &#8220;public safety is not compromised&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Defending itself in the face of claims from the Institute of Bahamian Architects that &#8220;bottlenecks and delays&#8221; in approving building construction permits were unnecessary and cost the Bahamian economy &#8220;millions of dollars&#8221; each year, the Ministry of Works told Tribune Business in a statement that it has &#8220;in recent years placed particular emphasis on improving efficiency in meeting the needs of its customers&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Ministry of Works is assessing how to improve the efficiency of the building permit process while continuing to comply with existing legislation and ensuring that &#8220;public safety is not compromised&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"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":[24,40,49],"class_list":["post-4764","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-headlines","tag-construction","tag-government","tag-law"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4764","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\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4764"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4764\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4764"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4764"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4764"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}