{"id":241775,"date":"2003-03-25T12:51:07","date_gmt":"2003-03-25T17:51:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2003\/03\/batelco-trouble-blocks-soldiers-call-from-iraq"},"modified":"2003-03-25T12:51:07","modified_gmt":"2003-03-25T17:51:07","slug":"batelco-trouble-blocks-soldiers-call-from-iraq","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2003\/03\/batelco-trouble-blocks-soldiers-call-from-iraq","title":{"rendered":"BaTelCo Trouble Blocks Soldiers Call From Iraq"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bahamian  paratrooper Christopher Booth, part of the British combat force in Iraq, was looking forward to phoning home as he braced himself for war.<\/P><\/p>\n<p><P>But when senior officers allowed him and his colleagues a few minutes each to contact their families, Christopher couldn&#8217;t get through because BaTelCo was having problems with their cellular phone links.<\/P><\/p>\n<p><P>Instead, Christopher had to divert his message through his girlfriend in England, who had then made contact with his family via ordinary  telephone.<\/P><\/p>\n<p><P>While many Bahamians watch the Iraq conflict from the other side of the world, Private Booth is defending Iraq oil fields.<\/p>\n<p><P><B>Source: Dominic Duncombe, The Tribune<\/B><\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Soldier had to route a message through England instead.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","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":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-241775","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241775","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=241775"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241775\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=241775"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=241775"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=241775"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}