{"id":32929,"date":"2013-03-14T09:28:17","date_gmt":"2013-03-14T13:28:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/?p=32929"},"modified":"2013-03-14T09:28:17","modified_gmt":"2013-03-14T13:28:17","slug":"us-embassy-issues-crime-warning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2013\/03\/us-embassy-issues-crime-warning","title":{"rendered":"US Embassy Issues Crime Warning"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2013\/03\/us-embassy-issues-crime-warning-32929.html\/us-embassy-2\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-32930\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-32930\" title=\"us-embassy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/us-embassy.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/us-embassy.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/us-embassy-150x112.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a>\u00a0The U.S. government has issued a warning about the threat of armed robbery in the Turks and Caicos Islands, a sleepy British territory south of the Bahamas where violent crime is rare.<\/p>\n<p>A statement from the U.S. Embassy in the Bahamas said the government has received increased reports of armed robberies of U.S. citizens in Providenciales, the most populated island in the chain.<\/p>\n<p>It said there were two incidents in the tourist area of Grace Bay and one in a private home and warned people to remain cautious.<\/p>\n<p>Turks and Caicos Gov. Ric Todd said Wednesday the island chain had a few serious incidents recently but has one of the lowest levels of crime in the Caribbean. They get 1 million visitors per year, mostly from cruise ships.<\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #888888;\">By Associated Press<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The U.S. government has issued a warning about the threat of armed robbery in the Turks and Caicos Islands, a sleepy British territory south of the Bahamas where violent crime is rare.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"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":[1355,234,1128],"class_list":["post-32929","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-headlines","tag-providenciales","tag-turks-and-caicos","tag-us-embassy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32929","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32929"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32929\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32929"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32929"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32929"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}