{"id":3376,"date":"2010-10-22T07:39:44","date_gmt":"2010-10-22T11:39:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/?p=3376"},"modified":"2010-10-22T07:39:44","modified_gmt":"2010-10-22T11:39:44","slug":"cab-drivers-ripping-off-tourists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2010\/10\/cab-drivers-ripping-off-tourists","title":{"rendered":"Cab Drivers Ripping Off Tourists"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Unscrupulous Bahamian taxi drivers are charging cruise ship passengers round trip fares before they take them to their destinations.<\/p>\n<p>The illegal practice is a violation of the Road Traffic Act and is cutting into the earnings of other law abiding cab drivers.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;What they are doing is &#8230; they are collecting both ways and holding the tourists hostage until they come back and telling them what time they are going to pick them up,&#8221; said taxi cab driver Kalvin Rolle.<\/p>\n<p>Taxi driver Michael Bain said he has been observing the underhanded actions of some of his co-workers for years now and is hoping that something will be done to address the issue.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Unscrupulous Bahamian taxi drivers are charging cruise ship passengers round trip fares before they take them to their destinations.<\/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":[9],"tags":[93,33],"class_list":["post-3376","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-travel","tag-corruption","tag-tourism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3376","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=3376"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3376\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3376"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3376"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3376"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}