{"id":9047,"date":"2011-05-31T08:09:14","date_gmt":"2011-05-31T12:09:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/?p=9047"},"modified":"2011-05-31T10:46:14","modified_gmt":"2011-05-31T14:46:14","slug":"venture-fund-needs-cash-injection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2011\/05\/venture-fund-needs-cash-injection","title":{"rendered":"Venture Fund Needs Cash Injection"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Government-sponsored venture capital fund is set to request a further $2 million injection from the Ingraham administration to help fund another five-six ventures &#8220;in the pipeline&#8221;, its chairman telling Tribune Business there were no plans to &#8220;discontinue&#8221; public funding.<\/p>\n<p>While concerns have been expressed in some quarters that there was no &#8216;line item&#8217; in the 2010-2011 Budget specifying the annual $1 million injection that the Bahamas Entrepreneurial Venture Fund traditionally received from the Government, Michael Cunningham said this had been the practice &#8220;for the last two to three years&#8221;, the funds being bound up with other forms of small and medium-sized business assistance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Government-sponsored Bahamas Entrepreneurial Venture Fund intends to request an additional $2 million injection.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"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":[98,40,135],"class_list":["post-9047","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","tag-financial","tag-government","tag-small-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9047","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\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9047"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9047\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9047"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9047"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9047"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}