{"id":22305,"date":"2012-06-04T08:47:16","date_gmt":"2012-06-04T12:47:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/?p=22305"},"modified":"2012-06-04T08:47:16","modified_gmt":"2012-06-04T12:47:16","slug":"beaches-turks-and-caicos-ordered-to-close","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2012\/06\/beaches-turks-and-caicos-ordered-to-close","title":{"rendered":"Beaches Turks and Caicos Ordered to Close"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_22309\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-22309\" style=\"width: 250px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-22309\" title=\"beaches-turks-caicos\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/beaches-turks-caicos-250x166.jpg\" alt=\"Beaches Turks &amp; Caicos \" width=\"250\" height=\"166\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-22309\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Beaches Turks &amp; Caicos <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The world-famous Beaches Resort Villages and Spa on the island of  Providenciales in the Turks and Caicos Islands, has been ordered by  health authorities to close and not take any new guests until June 9th  because of the mystery virus that has plagued more than a dozen hotels  in this high-end Caribbean tourist destination.<\/p>\n<p>The temporary closure was ordered today Saturday June 2nd, following a  number of high-level meetings between Beaches officials and a Government  delegation and after it was reported that close to 60 guests at the  hotel were affected by severe diarrhea and vomiting in recent weeks.<\/p>\n<p>This action came at a time when Beaches was at full occupancy, with an  estimated 2,500 guests, who are now either being transferred to other  hotels in Providenciales or reimbursed for their vacation and going back  to their countries of origin.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #888888;\"><em><strong>By Hayden Boyce<br \/>\nPublisher &amp; Editor-in-Chief<br \/>\nTurks and Caicos SUN Newspaper<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The world-famous Beaches Resort Villages and Spa on the island of Providenciales in the Turks and Caicos Islands, has been ordered by health authorities to close because of a mystery virus.<\/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":[9],"tags":[19,234],"class_list":["post-22305","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-travel","tag-health","tag-turks-and-caicos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22305","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=22305"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22305\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22305"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22305"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22305"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}