{"id":30523,"date":"2013-01-21T09:56:30","date_gmt":"2013-01-21T14:56:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/?p=30523"},"modified":"2013-01-21T09:56:41","modified_gmt":"2013-01-21T14:56:41","slug":"out-of-control-crime-ruining-bahamas-tourism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2013\/01\/out-of-control-crime-ruining-bahamas-tourism","title":{"rendered":"Out-of-Control Crime Ruining Bahamas&#8217; Tourism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-19517 alignleft\" title=\"crime-tourism\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/crime-tourism.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/crime-tourism.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/crime-tourism-150x112.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/>The country\u2019s high crime levels could \u201cruin\u201d the tourism industry, Prime Minister Perry Christie said.<\/p>\n<p>He said crime \u201cgoes against\u201d what the government is trying to do with respect to tourism and the country\u2019s reputation and also spoke on new \u201canchor projects\u201d for the Family Islands that could help unemployment rates.<\/p>\n<p>He was addressing nearly 150 Breezes Resort employees who were honoured for their years of service to the hotel, with many of the honourees having served for more than 15 years.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe behaviour of our people could ruin a wonderful career that you have ahead of you,\u201d Mr Christie told the crowd. \u201cCrime has become an incredible challenge to this island, in particular, and we have to bring it under control.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>While some may think crime is \u201clocalised in over-the-hill communities\u201d the reality is crime affects all parts of the island, he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The rising out-of-control crime in The Bahamas could ruin the tourism industry and is damaging the country&#8217;s reputation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"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":[31,33,73],"class_list":["post-30523","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-headlines","tag-crime","tag-tourism","tag-travel-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30523","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\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30523"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30523\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30523"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30523"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30523"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}