{"id":7461,"date":"2011-04-04T08:49:39","date_gmt":"2011-04-04T12:49:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/?p=7461"},"modified":"2011-04-04T08:52:48","modified_gmt":"2011-04-04T12:52:48","slug":"caricom-chairman-calls-for-free-intra-regional-movement-of-nationals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2011\/04\/caricom-chairman-calls-for-free-intra-regional-movement-of-nationals","title":{"rendered":"Caricom Chairman Calls for Free Intra-regional Movement of Nationals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Chairman of the Caribbean Community (Caricom), Grenadian Prime Minister Tillman Thomas, says the time has come for all member governments to live up to their commitment to free intra-regional movement of Caricom nationals.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Thomas is calling on government to arrest the widening complaints of nationals who are abused upon arrival at ports of entry.<\/p>\n<p>His call for fair and non-discriminatory treatment of Caricom nationals arriving in member states was highlighted when Prime Minister Hubert Ingraham of The Bahamas in May 2009 publicly castigated Bahamian immigration officers for their &#8220;offensive behaviour&#8221; towards Jamaicans arriving in that community partner state.<\/p>\n<p>Ingraham had denounced what he identified as the frequent &#8220;insolent and rude behaviour&#8221; by Bahamian immigration officials on the prejudiced assumption that the Jamaicans were all bent on engaging in illegal activities and, therefore, did not deserve the welcome mat.<\/p>\n<p>That situation has not changed much since then.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chairman of the Caribbean Community (Caricom), Grenadian Prime Minister Tillman Thomas, says the time has come for all member governments to live up to their commitment to free intra-regional movement of Caricom nationals.<\/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":[9],"tags":[100,40,73],"class_list":["post-7461","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-travel","tag-caribbean-2","tag-government","tag-travel-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7461","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=7461"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7461\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7461"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7461"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7461"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}