{"id":243632,"date":"2006-10-12T11:11:08","date_gmt":"2006-10-12T15:11:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2006\/10\/hotel-tycoon-dies-in-helicopter-crash"},"modified":"2006-10-12T11:11:08","modified_gmt":"2006-10-12T15:11:08","slug":"hotel-tycoon-dies-in-helicopter-crash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2006\/10\/hotel-tycoon-dies-in-helicopter-crash","title":{"rendered":"Hotel Tycoon Dies In Helicopter Crash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Among the victims was hotel tycoon Howard &#8220;Butch&#8221; Kerzner, chief executive officer of Kerzner International Holdings Ltd., a Bahamas-based casino and resort operator.<\/p>\n<p>A spokeswoman for the Dominican airport authority said Kerzner was in the helicopter when it crashed into a building in the popular tourist resort of Sosua.<\/p>\n<p>Kerzner was surveying potential development sites at the time of the accident.<\/p>\n<p>A commission is investigating the cause of the accident.<\/p>\n<p>Kerzner International operates casinos in countries including Dubai, the Maldives, Mexico and Mauritius as well as the Bahamas&#8217; Atlantis resort.<\/p>\n<p><small>The Associated Press<br \/>\nSource: www.wmur.com<\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Officials are reporting the crash of a helicopter on the Dominican Republic&#8217;s north coast, killing four on board.<\/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-243632","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243632","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=243632"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243632\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=243632"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=243632"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=243632"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}