{"id":33609,"date":"2013-03-27T10:29:08","date_gmt":"2013-03-27T14:29:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/?p=33609"},"modified":"2013-03-27T10:40:51","modified_gmt":"2013-03-27T14:40:51","slug":"bahamians-being-arrested-abroad-bad-for-the-bahamas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2013\/03\/bahamians-being-arrested-abroad-bad-for-the-bahamas","title":{"rendered":"Bahamians Arrested Abroad Hurt The Nation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-17982\" title=\"fraud\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/fraud.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/fraud.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/fraud-150x112.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/>Foreign Affairs Minister Fred Mitchell plans to examine the evidence of fraudulent immigration papers concerning Irene Burrows\u2019 conviction and her three year sentence for smuggling migrants to the United States for private financial gain.<\/p>\n<p>Irene Burrows, a 66-year-old Grand Bahamian, confessed to using her nursing care facility, \u2018Burrows\u2019 Home for the Aged\u2019, to facilitate Brazilian immigrants. In some cases she even helped with obtaining fraudulent Bahamian immigration documents. She admitted that she accepted payment for the services and transportation provided in connection with the smuggling scheme.<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Mitchell was asked if he was concerned that Bahamians are getting arrested abroad, ihe said: \u201cIt is a concern if Bahamians are involved in smuggling. \u2028It jeopardises our good relations with our neighbours.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe for example, have a concern of the smuggling and drugs, its being used by people. And Bahamasair is always being pulled over by the American authorities and searched and people are being embarrassed and dogs are being brought out and passengers are frightened on the Bahamasair plane because this is happening.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Foreign Affairs Minister said, &#8220;It is a concern if Bahamians are involved in smuggling. \u2028It jeopardises our good relations with our neighbours.\u201d <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"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":[41],"class_list":["post-33609","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-headlines","tag-immigration"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33609","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\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33609"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33609\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33609"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33609"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33609"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}