{"id":28436,"date":"2012-11-21T20:34:02","date_gmt":"2012-11-22T01:34:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/?p=28436"},"modified":"2012-11-21T20:34:02","modified_gmt":"2012-11-22T01:34:02","slug":"shantytown-issue-needs-to-be-resolved","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2012\/11\/shantytown-issue-needs-to-be-resolved","title":{"rendered":"Shantytown Issue Needs To Be Resolved"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Environment Minister Kenred Dorsett revealed that the government has initiated an investigation into the country\u2019s many shantytowns to finally try and resolve the vexing issue.<\/p>\n<p>A fire at a shantytown off Sir Milo Butler Highway over the weekend has renewed concerns about the crowded communities and the impact they have on neighboring areas.<\/p>\n<p>Dorsett revealed that teams from the Department of Environmental Health Services have begun the process of compiling detailed reports on the shantytowns.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019ll be looking at all of these areas to determine which environmental infractions exist and make recommendations as to how we should proceed, and make a determination if any prosecution should also come from what we are able to find as a result of these reports,\u201d Dorsett said.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-28441\" title=\"shantytonwn\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/shantytonwn.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/shantytonwn.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/shantytonwn-150x112.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/>Last year, former Prime Minister Hubert Ingraham revealed that a senior civil servant was collecting rent from many Haitians living in the shantytown formerly known as Mackey Yard.<\/p>\n<p>Ingraham said the prominent person collected the rent, despite the fact that he had no title to the land. That plot of Crown land is now being developed into a government subdivision.<\/p>\n<p>But Dorsett said the work cannot stop there.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A fire over the weekend has renewed concerns and initiated a government investigation into the country&#8217;s many shantytowns. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"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":[302,188,19,189],"class_list":["post-28436","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-headlines","tag-fire","tag-haitians","tag-health","tag-housing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28436","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\/25"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28436"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28436\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28436"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28436"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28436"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}