{"id":7919,"date":"2011-04-20T09:57:43","date_gmt":"2011-04-20T13:57:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/?p=7919"},"modified":"2011-04-20T09:57:43","modified_gmt":"2011-04-20T13:57:43","slug":"bahamas-changes-foreign-investment-restrictions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2011\/04\/bahamas-changes-foreign-investment-restrictions","title":{"rendered":"Bahamas Changes Foreign Investment Restrictions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Prime Minister Hubert Ingraham has lifted the restriction prohibiting  foreign investments in restaurants or entertainment facilities, and  increased the minimum dollar requirement for direct foreign investment.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Ingraham made the statement yesterday during his communication to  Parliament on the amendments to the National Investment Policy, where he  also said that persons who purchase homes in the Bahamas for the  purposes of seeking accelerated consideration for permanent resident  status will have to buy a home for at least $1.5 million.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prime Minister Hubert Ingraham has lifted the restriction prohibiting foreign investments in restaurants or entertainment facilities, and increased the minimum dollar requirement for direct foreign investment.<\/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":[3],"tags":[98,40,47,28],"class_list":["post-7919","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","tag-financial","tag-government","tag-investing","tag-real-estate"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7919","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=7919"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7919\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7919"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7919"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7919"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}