{"id":5674,"date":"2011-01-14T08:34:44","date_gmt":"2011-01-14T13:34:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/?p=5674"},"modified":"2011-01-14T08:34:44","modified_gmt":"2011-01-14T13:34:44","slug":"ingraham-bahamas-economy-on-the-mend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2011\/01\/ingraham-bahamas-economy-on-the-mend","title":{"rendered":"Ingraham: Bahamas Economy on the Mend"},"content":{"rendered":"<p id=\"story\">The Bahamas&#8217; prime minister on yesterday predicted that  the islands&#8217; economy will grow between two to 2.5 per cent this year,  buoyed by more foreign investment, construction projects and tourist  arrivals.<\/p>\n<p id=\"story\">Economic conditions finally stabilised last year on the  tourism-dependent islands, which were battered by the global recession,  Hubert Ingraham told a conference of business leaders in the capital of  Nassau.<\/p>\n<p id=\"story\">&#8220;I am pleased to advise that there is every expectation that 2011 will see marked improvement,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>However, lingering unemployment will likely keep the Bahamas a year away from starting a more rapid ascent toward prosperity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Bahamas&#8217; prime minister on yesterday predicted that the islands&#8217; economy will grow between two to 2.5 per cent this year, buoyed by more foreign investment, construction projects and tourist arrivals.<\/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":[3],"tags":[29],"class_list":["post-5674","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","tag-economy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5674","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=5674"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5674\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5674"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5674"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5674"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}