{"id":7801,"date":"2011-04-15T08:49:25","date_gmt":"2011-04-15T12:49:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/?p=7801"},"modified":"2011-04-15T09:23:55","modified_gmt":"2011-04-15T13:23:55","slug":"baha-mar-presents-great-opportunity-for-local-contractors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2011\/04\/baha-mar-presents-great-opportunity-for-local-contractors","title":{"rendered":"Baha Mar Presents Great Opportunity For Bahamas Contractors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bahamian Contractors Association (BCA) executives, speaking yesterday at the signing ceremony for a $225,000 project to strengthen their organisation and the overall industry, described the $400 million worth of Baha Mar construction work reserved for local companies\/tradesmen as &#8220;one of the greatest opportunities we have&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Stephen Wrinkle, the BCA&#8217;s president, said this arrangement, negotiated by Prime Minister Hubert Ingraham with the Chinese government, would &#8220;take all the resources of the industry to prepare contractors and tradesmen&#8221; to participate and do the job correctly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bahamian Contractors Association executives described the $400 million Baha Mar construction work reserved for local companies\/tradesmen as &#8220;one of the greatest opportunities we have&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"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":[27,85,24],"class_list":["post-7801","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","tag-baha-mar","tag-cable-beach","tag-construction"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7801","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\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7801"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7801\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7801"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7801"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7801"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}