{"id":245972,"date":"2004-10-26T11:31:40","date_gmt":"2004-10-26T15:31:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2004\/10\/bahamas-fishermen-threatened-by-pirates"},"modified":"2004-10-26T11:31:40","modified_gmt":"2004-10-26T15:31:40","slug":"bahamas-fishermen-threatened-by-pirates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2004\/10\/bahamas-fishermen-threatened-by-pirates","title":{"rendered":"Bahamas Fishermen Threatened By Pirates"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fishermen who complained to police about piracy off the coast of Andros have had their lives threatened, it emerged last night.<br \/>\n<P><br \/>\nA group of Andros men turned up at Coral harbour looking for boat owner Shawn Turnquest, one of three brothers who protested about large lobster thefts.<br \/>\n<P><br \/>\nAnd a crewman who works for Mr. Turnquest was threatened as he passed through Nassau International Airport on his way to Freeport.<br \/>\n<P><br \/>\nThe threats came as another raid on lobster traps near South Riding Rocks, off north-west Andros, left 37 lines pulled up and destroyed. This, according to boat owner, Collingwood Turnquest, represented a loos of more than $20,000.<br \/>\n<P><br \/>\nPolice have already questioned two ANdros men and released them on bail. But the action of the police has done nothing to stop what victims have described as &#8220;piracy on the high seas&#8221;, which has led to several boats from other islands being robbed of their valuable catches.<br \/>\n<P><br \/>\nMr. Turnquest told The Tribune last night, &#8220;it seems these guys think they own the sea round Andros. They abviously feel they can getaway with it.<br \/>\n<P><br \/>\n&#8220;I don&#8217;t think the police are doing their job. They must know who these guys are, but they are not doing anything about it.&#8221;<br \/>\n<P><br \/>\n<B>The Tribune<\/B><\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t think the police are doing their job. They must know who these guys are, but they are not doing anything about it&#8217; said a boat-owner.<\/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-245972","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-headlines"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245972","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=245972"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245972\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=245972"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=245972"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=245972"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}