{"id":1802,"date":"2010-09-08T08:47:10","date_gmt":"2010-09-08T12:47:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/?p=1802"},"modified":"2010-09-08T08:47:10","modified_gmt":"2010-09-08T12:47:10","slug":"two-bec-employees-arrested-in-copper-wire-theft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2010\/09\/two-bec-employees-arrested-in-copper-wire-theft","title":{"rendered":"Two BEC Employees Arrested in Copper Wire Theft"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Police have arrested two employees of the Bahamas Electricity Corporation (BEC) in connection with the brazen daytime robbery of copper wire from a Broadcasting Corporation of The Bahamas (BCB) transmission site last week.<\/p>\n<p>The copper wire was stolen from the broadcasting corporation&#8217;s property on Blue Hill Road south on Thursday morning, knocking out the transmission signal to the 1540 AM radio station.<\/p>\n<p>Police are still trying to determine the amount of copper that was stolen.<\/p>\n<p>BEC chairman Michael Moss said that pending the outcome of the police investigation, the men could face possible termination.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement issued last week, BCB said restoration of the signal is expected to take approximately 30 days.<\/p>\n<p>The broadcasting corporation said it has decided to discontinue operation of 104.5 FM for the time being and provide 1540 AM&#8217;s signal on 104.5 FM.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Police have arrested two employees of the Bahamas Electricity Corporation in connection with last week&#8217;s brazen daytime robbery of copper wire.<\/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":[90,43],"class_list":["post-1802","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-headlines","tag-bec","tag-telecommunications"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1802","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=1802"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1802\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1802"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1802"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1802"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}