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Residents of West Bay Street are fuming at the owner of a lot with an abandoned house that has been allowed to become a blight on the neighborhood and a potential dengue fever factory.<\/p>\n The house, across the street from Cappriccio’s Restaurant on West Bay Street has been abandoned for several months.\u00a0 The grass has not been mowed and there is a large pile of garbage near the front gate of the property where rats congregate.<\/p>\n Neighbors say that the property has become a potential breeding ground for dengue-carrying mosquitos, rats and other disease-carrying insects.<\/p>\n “The property has been a problem for a long time. Even when the house was rented out, the owner refused to maintain the property as allegedly stipulated in the tenant’s lease,” one neighbor said.<\/p>\n “There are buckets and pockets of standing water where you can see swarms of mosquitos in the early morning and evening,” he added.<\/p>\n A Chinese-Bahamian named Mr Sit is allegedly the owner of the property but could not be reached for comment.<\/p>\n The Bahamas has seen a record number of cases of dengue fever this year, more than 1,500 reported cases and many more that have gone unreported.\u00a0 Officials are also investigating three reported deaths.<\/p>\n The Ministry of Environment has issued a guide for eliminating mosquito breeding grounds and is fogging in certain areas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Residents of West Bay Street are fuming at the owner of a lot with an abandoned house that has been allowed to become a blight on the neighborhood and a potential dengue fever factory.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"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":[76,40,19],"class_list":["post-11314","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-headlines","tag-environment-2","tag-government","tag-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11314","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11314"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11314\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11314"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11314"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11314"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"Potential](\"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/sit-house2-181x250.jpg\" "\\"sit-house2\\"")