{"id":7251,"date":"2011-03-23T22:41:17","date_gmt":"2011-03-24T02:41:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/?p=7251"},"modified":"2011-03-23T22:46:46","modified_gmt":"2011-03-24T02:46:46","slug":"court-dismisses-btc-appeal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2011\/03\/court-dismisses-btc-appeal","title":{"rendered":"Court Dismisses BTC Appeal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Court of Appeal late yesterday dismissed the appeal filed by Bahamas  Telecomunications Company unions who were seeking to block the sale of  BTC\u2019s majority shares to Cable and Wireless Communications.<\/p>\n<p>The justices handed down their decision after 5 p.m. and said they will give their reasons in writing at a later date.<\/p>\n<p>This represents another major blow to the unions, which insist that the sale would be bad for BTC workers and the country.<\/p>\n<p>The justices ordered that the unions pay all costs in both the Court of Appeal and the Supreme Court.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Court of Appeal has dismissed the appeal filed by Bahamas Telecomunications Company unions who were seeking to block the sale of BTC\u2019s majority shares to Cable and Wireless Communications.<\/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":[12],"tags":[36,32,68],"class_list":["post-7251","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-headlines","tag-btc","tag-courts","tag-unions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7251","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=7251"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7251\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7251"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7251"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7251"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}