{"id":244817,"date":"2004-01-16T12:35:23","date_gmt":"2004-01-16T17:35:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2004\/01\/lack-of-sand-brings-island-wide-construction-slow-down"},"modified":"2004-01-16T12:35:23","modified_gmt":"2004-01-16T17:35:23","slug":"lack-of-sand-brings-island-wide-construction-slow-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2004\/01\/lack-of-sand-brings-island-wide-construction-slow-down","title":{"rendered":"Lack of Sand Brings Island-Wide Construction Slow-Down"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Builders say Country Sand Company has not been able to provide enough sand to met their needs after the main barge malfunctioned and the crane on the smaller barge failed.<br \/>\n<P><br \/>\nThey report that the problem has increased in recent months, but it has been plaguing them for about a year.<br \/>\n<P>Operations at large and small construction projects alike have been slowed, going past deadlines, because sand is a amjor component in several phases of construction.<br \/>\n<P><br \/>\nThe company is providing some sand, but contractors sai it&#8217;s not nearly enough to meet their demands.<br \/>\n<P><br \/>\n<B>Source: Felicity Ingraham, The Tribune<\/B><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A lack of sand at Arawak Cay is causing an island-wide slowdown in the construction business, leaving many contractors frustrated.<\/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":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-244817","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-headlines"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244817","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=244817"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244817\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=244817"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=244817"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=244817"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}