{"id":9243,"date":"2011-06-07T10:17:11","date_gmt":"2011-06-07T14:17:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/?p=9243"},"modified":"2011-06-07T11:41:35","modified_gmt":"2011-06-07T15:41:35","slug":"hope-for-grand-bahama-ritchie-attempts-to-buy-cruise-line","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2011\/06\/hope-for-grand-bahama-ritchie-attempts-to-buy-cruise-line","title":{"rendered":"Hope for Grand Bahama: Ritchie Attempts To Buy Cruise Line"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_9250\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-9250\" style=\"width: 200px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-9250\" title=\"jackson-ritchie\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/jackson-ritchie-e1307461274703.jpg\" alt=\"Jackson Ritchie\" width=\"200\" height=\"172\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/jackson-ritchie-e1307461274703.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/jackson-ritchie-e1307461274703-150x129.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-9250\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jackson Ritchie<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Grand Bahama may have dodged another bullet in the loss of transportation linchpin Discovery Cruise, as a Bahamian businessman has stepped up to the plate to invest millions to keep the service going.<\/p>\n<p>Five years after his first attempts to acquire the cruise liner,  Global United Limited\u2019s CEO Jackson Ritchie is reportedly in  negotiations to continue its Fort Lauderdale-Freeport route.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s even after the aging ship is taken offline in a matter of months, several sources close to the deal confirm.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFrom what I understand,\u201d said one insider, \u201che is purchasing two other ships.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is good news for Grand Bahama because we cannot cope with another letdown and we need something like this.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Other sources confirm that while the negotiations have progressed quite far in recent weeks, nothing has been finalized as yet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Global United Limited&#8217;s CEO Jackson Ritchie is reportedly in negotiations trying to keep alive the Fort Lauderdale-Freeport service that will be abandoned by Discovery Cruise Lines.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"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":[96,107,81,33],"class_list":["post-9243","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","tag-boats","tag-florida","tag-grand-bahama","tag-tourism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9243","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\/25"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9243"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9243\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9243"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9243"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9243"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}