{"id":5328,"date":"2010-12-21T09:42:35","date_gmt":"2010-12-21T14:42:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/?p=5328"},"modified":"2010-12-21T09:42:35","modified_gmt":"2010-12-21T14:42:35","slug":"pm-ingraham-responds-to-sir-jack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2010\/12\/pm-ingraham-responds-to-sir-jack","title":{"rendered":"PM Ingraham Responds to Sir Jack"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hannes Babak’s former engagement as chairman of the Grand Bahama Port Authority (GBPA) was outside of his approved immigration status and was accommodated under a work permit, Prime Minister Hubert Ingraham explained in a recent letter to Sir Jack Hayward obtained exclusively by the Freeport News.<\/p>\n

Ingraham was responding to Sir Jack’s comments<\/a> weeks ago where he blasted the government for refusing to renew Babak’s work permit – a move he claimed stifled the growth of the Grand Bahama economy.<\/p>\n

Hayward, who serves as honorary chairman of the GBPA, noted that a number of projects that Babak was working on, including attracting a LNG plant to the island, are now simply “gathering dust.”<\/p>\n

“We’re working on things – we’re a bit leaderless without Hannes Babak,” Hayward said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Prime Minister Hubert Ingraham responds to Sir Jack Hayward’s concerns regarding the loss of Hannes Babak as chairman of the Grand Bahama Port Authority.<\/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":[81,41],"class_list":["post-5328","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","tag-grand-bahama","tag-immigration"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5328","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=5328"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5328\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5328"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5328"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5328"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}