{"id":16550,"date":"2012-01-04T23:30:34","date_gmt":"2012-01-05T04:30:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/?p=16550"},"modified":"2012-01-04T23:44:11","modified_gmt":"2012-01-05T04:44:11","slug":"mass-drowning-of-haitians-off-exuma","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2012\/01\/mass-drowning-of-haitians-off-exuma","title":{"rendered":"Mass Drowning of Haitians Off Exuma"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_16571\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-16571\" style=\"width: 250px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-16571\" title=\"haitian-boat\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/haitian-boat-250x165.jpg\" alt=\"Haitian boat\" width=\"250\" height=\"165\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/haitian-boat-250x165.jpg 250w, https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/haitian-boat-150x99.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/haitian-boat.jpg 369w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-16571\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Haitian Boat - File Photo<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>There are reports that the 56 immigrants apprehended from a vessel, intercepted near Exuma last week, were only the survivors of an original group of 250 Haitians.<\/p>\n<p>The newspapers reported that 56 Haitians had been apprehended.<\/p>\n<p>But, the Bahamas Press website claims some 200 plus voyagers died at sea, drowned.<\/p>\n<p>Illegal Haitians who made the voyage are apparently the only ones with the facts, but according to survivors, the vessel actually carried over 250 persons.<\/p>\n<p>Nothing about the deaths was reported in the press, nothing was reported of the bodies that were left out at sea.<\/p>\n<p>Details of the horrific sea voyage were told to a number of Immigration contacts who interviewed survivors.<\/p>\n<p>Members of the Haitian community in Georgetown, who were awaiting their relatives, are highly upset over the tragedy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are reports that the 56 immigrants apprehended from a vessel, intercepted near Exuma last week, were only the survivors of an original group of 250 Haitians.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"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":[188,41],"class_list":["post-16550","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-headlines","tag-haitians","tag-immigration"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16550","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\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16550"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16550\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16550"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16550"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16550"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}