{"id":2781,"date":"2010-10-05T08:42:28","date_gmt":"2010-10-05T12:42:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/?p=2781"},"modified":"2010-10-05T08:42:28","modified_gmt":"2010-10-05T12:42:28","slug":"increase-in-young-bahamians-involved-in-gang-activity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2010\/10\/increase-in-young-bahamians-involved-in-gang-activity","title":{"rendered":"Increase in Young Bahamians Involved in Gang Activity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The number of youth gangs in the Bahamas rose by 58 per cent over the past eight  years, according to data released by Youth Against Violence.<\/p>\n<p>The total  number of gangs in the Bahamas is now 79, and schools have become a &#8220;breeding  ground.&#8221; It is not just public schools being affected, said Minister Keith Gray,  a presenter at the Conflict Resolution and Anger Management Seminar on  Friday.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;No school is impervious to gang penetration,&#8221; he said. &#8220;We say  this not to create pandemonium, but to create a network of support to address  the plight of our youth,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>Source: The Tribune<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Commissioner Elliston Greenslade confirmed that the police are open to the idea of establishing a gang unit as another strategy for youth intervention.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","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":[51],"class_list":["post-2781","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-headlines","tag-youth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2781","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\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2781"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2781\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2781"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2781"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2781"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}