{"id":1462,"date":"2010-08-29T18:04:59","date_gmt":"2010-08-29T22:04:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/?p=1462"},"modified":"2010-08-29T18:04:59","modified_gmt":"2010-08-29T22:04:59","slug":"nygard-quiets-bahamas-press","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2010\/08\/nygard-quiets-bahamas-press","title":{"rendered":"Nygard Quiets Bahamas Press"},"content":{"rendered":"

The BahamasPress.com website received a letter from lawyers for fashion mogul Peter Nygard threatening to shut down the website if inflammatory posts regarding Mr Nygard’s character were not immediately removed.<\/p>\n

Mr Nygard is a resident of Lyford Cay and has been in the news recently regarding a spat with his neighbor<\/a>, billionaire Louis Bacon.<\/p>\n

The comments, posted by the administrator of the site – who goes by the moniker “media” – as well as users nicknamed “newsman” and “Mackey” were said to be inflammatory, untrue and defamatory by Mr Nygard’s Canadian attorneys.<\/p>\n

The website which is read more for amusement than actual news, falsely claims to have over 10 million viewers. In reality, the site generates probably no more than a few hundred unique visitors per day, according to Niki Bright, BahamasB2B webmaster and an expert on web traffic in The Bahamas.<\/p>\n

Mr Nygard’s lawyers asked that the posts be removed, “or alternatively, remove the website in its entirety.”<\/p>\n

A recent check of the site shows that the post in question was removed.<\/p>\n

The BahamasIssues.com website, which allegedly picked up the posts and re-published them on their forum, may also have received a similar letter.<\/p>\n

This follows on the heels of the Tribune newspaper sending a copyright infringement letter to the administrator of the BahamasIssues website after it was discovered that site was re-publishing Tribune news articles in their entirety without permission from the Tribune management.<\/p>\n

Also, in Bahamas web news, Bahamian police questioned a local webmaster<\/a> for allegedly hijacking a quasi-government website.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A local website, often criticized for poor writing and a PLP bias, has removed inflammatory content about Peter Nygard after receiving a letter from the fashion mogul’s lawyers.<\/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":[69,49],"class_list":["post-1462","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-headlines","tag-internet","tag-law"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1462","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=1462"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1462\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1462"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1462"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1462"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}