{"id":24801,"date":"2022-03-12T16:29:24","date_gmt":"2022-03-12T11:29:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/?p=24801"},"modified":"2022-03-12T16:30:25","modified_gmt":"2022-03-12T11:30:25","slug":"group-of-investors-bought-a-caribbean-island-to-start-their-own-country","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/archives\/24801","title":{"rendered":"Group of investors bought a Caribbean island to start their own country."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Web Desk:<\/p>\n<p>According to Deseret News, the idea of owning a tropical island may seem unachievable but this group of travelers made it happen by purchasing Coffee Caye, making it the world\u2019s first crowd funded island. A group of 80 investors came together to buy an island which is a short boat ride from Belize City.<\/p>\n<p>Mayer is the co-founder of a project called Let\u2019s Buy an Island, started in 2018 with the goal of purchasing an island.\u00a0\u201cWho wouldn\u2019t want to buy an island?\u201d said Marshall Mayer, per CNN Travel.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_24804\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-24804\" style=\"width: 241px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/http___cdn.cnn_.com_cnnnext_dam_assets_220308152724-islandia-campsite1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-24804\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/http___cdn.cnn_.com_cnnnext_dam_assets_220308152724-islandia-campsite1-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"241\" height=\"136\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/http___cdn.cnn_.com_cnnnext_dam_assets_220308152724-islandia-campsite1-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/http___cdn.cnn_.com_cnnnext_dam_assets_220308152724-islandia-campsite1-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/http___cdn.cnn_.com_cnnnext_dam_assets_220308152724-islandia-campsite1-390x220.jpg 390w, https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/http___cdn.cnn_.com_cnnnext_dam_assets_220308152724-islandia-campsite1.jpg 900w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 241px) 100vw, 241px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-24804\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo Courtesy: Richard Collett\/CNN<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>In 2019, this group of investors raised over $250,000, enough to buy the Coffee Caye island. A short boat ride from Belize City, the uninhabited 1.2-acre island is almost shaped like a coffee bean, with a small beach on one side and scrub and mangroves on the other.<\/p>\n<p>Officially named the Principality of Islandia, with a national flag, this country has hundreds of online citizens, while novelty passports are incoming.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Web Desk: According to Deseret News, the idea of owning a tropical island may seem unachievable but this group of travelers made it happen by purchasing Coffee Caye, making it the world\u2019s first crowd funded island. A group of 80 investors came together to buy an island which is a short boat ride from Belize [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":24802,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24801","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24801","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24801"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24801\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24808,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24801\/revisions\/24808"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24802"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24801"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24801"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24801"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}