{"id":246689,"date":"2005-03-16T12:37:51","date_gmt":"2005-03-16T17:37:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2005\/03\/government-violates-rights-of-guana-cay-residents"},"modified":"2005-03-16T12:37:51","modified_gmt":"2005-03-16T17:37:51","slug":"government-violates-rights-of-guana-cay-residents","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2005\/03\/government-violates-rights-of-guana-cay-residents","title":{"rendered":"Government Violates Rights Of Guana Cay Residents"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Residents of Great Guana Cay in Abaco yesterday said that they feel their rights have been disrespected because they have not even been allowed to see a copy of the heads of agreement for the project.<br \/>\n<P><br \/>\nAbout three dozen of the area&#8217;s 150 local residents flew to Nassau yesterday to stage a peaceful protest in Rawson Square as the Prime Minister and other cabinet ministers arrived for their weekly meeting.<br \/>\n<P><br \/>\nAttorney Fred Smith is representing the residents in their bid to stop government from allowing the Passerine Company to develop a golf course, gated community and 240-slip marina in the area at a cost of $400 million. If completed the marina would be the largest in the country.<br \/>\n<P><br \/>\nThe residents have launched an all-out protest against the project. &#8220;The people of Guana Cay have a right to be heard, the government is obliged to take into account their view,&#8221; said Fred Smith.<br \/>\n<P><br \/>\nThey say if it is completed the golf course woul kill the reef that is just 50 feet offshore and the dredging for the proposed marina would destroy the 70-plus acres of mangrove, fish estuary and further compromise the land.<br \/>\n<P><SMALL>Source: Cara Brennen, The Tribune<\/SMALL><\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The people of Guana Cay have a right to be heard, the government is obliged to take into account their view,&#8217; said attorney, Fred Smith.<\/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-246689","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-headlines"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246689","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=246689"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246689\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=246689"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=246689"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=246689"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}