{"id":17262,"date":"2012-01-24T10:03:07","date_gmt":"2012-01-24T15:03:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/?p=17262"},"modified":"2012-01-24T10:03:07","modified_gmt":"2012-01-24T15:03:07","slug":"canadian-man-missing-in-grand-bahama","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2012\/01\/canadian-man-missing-in-grand-bahama","title":{"rendered":"Canadian Man Missing In Grand Bahama"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_17263\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-17263\" style=\"width: 200px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-17263\" title=\"john-batchelor\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/john-batchelor.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/john-batchelor.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/john-batchelor-150x112.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-17263\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">John William Batchelor, of Ontario, Canada<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Police in Grand Bahama are in search of a missing Canadian man after a boat, believed to be his, was found in waters off West End.<\/p>\n<p>According to police, the whereabouts of 72-year-old, is unknown at this time but his 30-foot beige and red vessel, the Joy B, was discovered between Sandy Cay and Memory Rock with a Canadian flag.<\/p>\n<p>Batchelor is described as being six feet tall with blue eyes.<\/p>\n<p>The vessel was spotted by occupants of a passing fishing vessel on Thursday, January 19, 2012.<\/p>\n<p>It is believed Batchelor frequented waters off West End.<\/p>\n<p>Bahamian police are in contact with international law enforcement agencies in relation to the missing man, According to Police Affairs and Communications Officer Assistant Superintendent Loretta Mackey.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile the police are still appealing to members of the local community with any information regarding the whereabouts of Batchelor to call the Central Detective Unit at 350-3107\/8.<\/p>\n<p>Source: The Freeport News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Grand Bahama police are searching for 72-year-old John William Batchelor, of Ontario, Canada, after his abandoned boat was found in waters off West End.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"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":[66,77,81],"class_list":["post-17262","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-headlines","tag-boating","tag-canada","tag-grand-bahama"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17262","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\/25"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17262"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17262\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17262"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17262"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17262"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}