{"id":246648,"date":"2005-03-07T11:30:56","date_gmt":"2005-03-07T16:30:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2005\/03\/20-metric-tons-of-cocaine-pass-through-the-bahamas"},"modified":"2005-03-07T11:30:56","modified_gmt":"2005-03-07T16:30:56","slug":"20-metric-tons-of-cocaine-pass-through-the-bahamas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2005\/03\/20-metric-tons-of-cocaine-pass-through-the-bahamas","title":{"rendered":"20 Metric Tons of Cocaine Pass Through The Bahamas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It is estimated that a minimum of 20 metric tons of cocaine may have passed through the Bahamas in 2004, the recently released US International Narcotics Control Strategy Report indicated.<br \/>\n<P><br \/>\nThe report said that in 2004, law enforcement officials identified on average a suspicious go-fast type boat in Bahamian waters every five days. In addition, there were 90 drug smuggling aircraft detected over the Bahamian territory.<br \/>\n<P><br \/>\nBahamian and US officials estimate that there are currently 12 major Bahamian drug trafficking organisations operating in the country.<br \/>\n<P><br \/>\n<B>Source: Rupert Missick, The Tribune<\/B><\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US report reveals shocking estimate of drugs passing through the Bahamas.<\/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-246648","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-headlines"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246648","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=246648"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246648\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=246648"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=246648"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=246648"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}