{"id":7869,"date":"2011-04-19T09:51:49","date_gmt":"2011-04-19T13:51:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/?p=7869"},"modified":"2011-04-19T09:51:49","modified_gmt":"2011-04-19T13:51:49","slug":"bahamas-casinos-handicapped","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2011\/04\/bahamas-casinos-handicapped","title":{"rendered":"Bahamas Casinos Handicapped"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Stressing the need for &#8220;the Bahamas to be on it&#8217;s &#8216;A-game'&#8221; if it is to win business in an increasingly competitive global gaming industry, a Baha Mar executive said that slow pace of reform is handicapping this nation&#8217;s casinos.<\/p>\n<p>Robert Sands, Baha Mar&#8217;s vice-president of external and governmental Affairs, told Tribune Business the Government is &#8220;certainly not moving as fast as we&#8217;d like&#8221; when it comes to amending regulations governing gaming in this nation, and allowing casino operators to keep pace with developments making competitors to rival companies more attractive to gamblers.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Sands, former president of the Bahamas Hotel Association, has been a long-standing advocate of reform of this nation&#8217;s gaming regulations, having spoken out in late 2009 on the need for &#8220;radical change&#8221; in this area if the Bahamas is to compete effectively against traditional and emerging gaming competitors.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The slow pace of reform is handicapping the Bahamas&#8217; casino business in an increasingly competitive global gaming industry.<\/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":[27,29,33],"class_list":["post-7869","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","tag-baha-mar","tag-economy","tag-tourism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7869","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=7869"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7869\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7869"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7869"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7869"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}