{"id":7092,"date":"2011-03-17T08:52:12","date_gmt":"2011-03-17T12:52:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/?p=7092"},"modified":"2011-03-17T08:52:12","modified_gmt":"2011-03-17T12:52:12","slug":"the-reincarnation-of-exuma","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2011\/03\/the-reincarnation-of-exuma","title":{"rendered":"The Reincarnation of Exuma"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The FNM is transforming  the infrastructure of the entire country.\u00a0 At Great Exuma, Prime  Minister Hubert Ingraham has committed his administration to a  multi-year plan to modernize the island\u2019s infrastructure, improving the  quality of life for Exumians, residents and visitors.<\/p>\n<p>After facilitating the  opening of Sandals\u2019 flagship resort at Emerald Bay and significantly  expanding direct airlift from the U.S.A. and Canada, the FNM is planning  for Exuma\u2019s future with residents, various stakeholders and planning  experts.\u00a0 The planning will include environmental and social impact  assessments to ensure that Great Exuma maintains its unique character  and traditions with modern amenities that will augment its natural  beauty.<\/p>\n<p>The comprehensive  infrastructure programme for Great Exuma includes the construction of a  hospital facility to improve access to better health care and medical  facilities.\u00a0\u00a0 A new port is also being planned. Once completed it will  help to spur economic growth and opportunities.\u00a0 The Prime Minister  noted that work on the new Exuma hospital should commence this year.<\/p>\n<p>To improve road  transportation and further enhance Great Exuma as a tourism destination  and attractive location for second-home owners, both Bahamian and  non-Bahamians, a feasibility study will be undertaken for the  construction of a bypass road.<\/p>\n<p>Great Exuma has outgrown  its main road in terms of its long term development needs.\u00a0 These  developments include Exuma\u2019s growing agricultural sector.\u00a0 The Minister  of Agriculture and Marine Resources Larry Cartwright and the Chairman of  BAIC, Mr. Edison Key and their teams in the Ministry and the  Corporation deserve credit for helping to facilitate the export of  onions from Exuma to Canada.<\/p>\n<p>It should be noted that in  their 2002 Manifesto, the PLP made the following promises to the people  of Great Exuma, all of which were broken:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Master  Harbour will be fully developed to serve as a transhipment centre and customs bonded area.<\/li>\n<li>Facilities for mid-sized cruise ships.<\/li>\n<li>An appropriate hospital to serve the essential needs of the region will be built and staffed.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The Opposition also  promised: \u201cThe maintenance and continued expansion of public  infrastructure is a major priority&#8230;\u201d\u00a0 They failed to keep this major  promise in New Providence and across the country, including in Great  Exuma.<\/p>\n<p>Today The Bahamas and  Exuma are moving in a new direction.\u00a0 As the Prime Minister pledged at  the official opening of the new U.S. Departure Terminal at the LPIA:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe  things we build are not ends in themselves.\u00a0 They are the indispensable  means to improve the quality of life of the Bahamian people and  residents.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The new port, hospital  facility and bypass road are being built to improve the quality of life  of hotel employees travelling to work, mothers receiving pre-natal and  neo-natal care, farmers shipping their produce, small business people  seeking to expand their businesses, among others.<\/p>\n<p>Upgrading the basic  infrastructure of the Islands of The Bahamas including that of Great  Exuma is a core component of the FNM\u2019s vision and plans to diversify  Family Island economies and promote both domestic and foreign direct  investment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prime Minister Hubert Ingraham has committed his administration to a multi-year plan to modernize the island\u2019s infrastructure, improving the quality of life for Exumians, residents and visitors.<\/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":[18],"tags":[24,74,59],"class_list":["post-7092","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lifestyle","tag-construction","tag-fnm","tag-islands"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7092","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=7092"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7092\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7092"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7092"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7092"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}