{"id":11177,"date":"2011-08-18T09:17:34","date_gmt":"2011-08-18T13:17:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/?p=11177"},"modified":"2011-08-18T09:29:57","modified_gmt":"2011-08-18T13:29:57","slug":"acklins-in-turmoil-after-high-profile-thefts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2011\/08\/acklins-in-turmoil-after-high-profile-thefts","title":{"rendered":"Acklins In Turmoil After High-Profile Thefts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Acklins residents are feeling a ripple effect from the series of high-profile thefts on the island earlier this year.<\/p>\n<p>Stephen Wilson, Acklins Island Administrator, said the community has not fully recovered and everyone is feeling the pinch.<\/p>\n<p>A &#8220;substantial sum of money&#8221; was stolen from a safe at the office of the administrator earlier this summer, during a holiday weekend.<\/p>\n<p>Late last year, some $200,000 was stolen after former island administrator Gregory Knowles and his son were kidnapped.<\/p>\n<p>In both instances, the stolen cash was public money sent by the central government to pay salaries and cover public expenses.<\/p>\n<p>Now, with no bank and no secure method of storing cash, the &#8220;flow of money&#8221; to the island is being hampered by wary officials in Nassau.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A series of high profile thefts have left the residents of Acklins Island feeling stranded and grappling with financial losses.<\/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":[12],"tags":[31,59],"class_list":["post-11177","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-headlines","tag-crime","tag-islands"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11177","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=11177"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11177\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11177"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11177"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}