{"id":51811,"date":"2014-03-10T08:50:13","date_gmt":"2014-03-10T12:50:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/?p=51811"},"modified":"2014-03-12T16:33:05","modified_gmt":"2014-03-12T20:33:05","slug":"coalition-t-shirt-day-set-for-march-12","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2014\/03\/coalition-t-shirt-day-set-for-march-12","title":{"rendered":"Coalition T-shirt Day Set For March 12"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-51813\" alt=\"vat-bahamas\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/vat-bahamas1.jpg\" width=\"550\" height=\"325\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Tiffani Lightbourne and Jennifer Pedican-Dames of New Oriental Cleaners will both be wearing these brightly coloured T-shirts on Wednesday March 12th to drum up support for the The Coalition for Responsible Taxation.<\/p>\n<p>Called WAKEUP WEDNESDAY the promotional push will unite employees of other participating businesses also wearing the T-shirts and remind others to sign the online Petition at www.wakeupbahamas.com.<\/p>\n<p>The Coalition for Responsible Taxation (the Coalition) is comprised of more than twenty major industry associations in The Bahamas representing some 700 businesses and 60,000 employees.<\/p>\n<p>Coalition PR volunteer, Lana Brogdon said: \u201cThe WakeUp Bahamas Campaign has been very successful so far and has generated thousands of petition signatures in support of delaying a decision on VAT until implications and alternatives are researched. However more signatures are required.<\/p>\n<p>To that end, Wednesday, March 12th will be observed as WakeUp Wednesday and businesses aligned with the Coalition will wear WakeUp Bahamas T-shirts highlighting the petition website: WakeUpBahamas.com.<\/p>\n<p>Persons can also sign hard-copy petitions at participating local businesses.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Serena Williams<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tiffani Lightbourne and Jennifer Pedican-Dames of New Oriental Cleaners will both be wearing these brightly coloured T-shirts on Wednesday March 12th to drum up support for the The Coalition for Responsible Taxation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":53,"featured_media":51813,"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":[29,40,49,275,556],"class_list":["post-51811","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","tag-economy","tag-government","tag-law","tag-tax","tag-vat"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51811","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\/53"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51811"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51811\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/51813"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51811"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51811"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51811"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}