{"id":339,"date":"2010-08-03T12:56:16","date_gmt":"2010-08-03T16:56:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/?p=339"},"modified":"2010-08-03T12:56:16","modified_gmt":"2010-08-03T16:56:16","slug":"lyford-cay-controversy-has-serious-implications","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2010\/08\/lyford-cay-controversy-has-serious-implications","title":{"rendered":"Lyford Cay Controversy Has Serious Implications"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/?attachment_id=340\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-340\" style=\"margin-left: 10px; margin-right: 10px;\" title=\"nygard-cay-night\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/nygard-cay-night-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>A bitter dispute that has been simmering below the surface for years  finally exploded this week when police raided the Lyford Cay home of  billionaire American financier Louis Bacon, 52, apparently based on a  complaint from his neighbour, 66-year-old international fashion mogul  Peter Nygard.<\/p>\n<p>Ten armed plainclothes police officers entered  Bacon&#8217;s home just after noon on Monday in search of lethal &#8220;ultrasonic  weaponry&#8221;. Although the owners were not present, police handcuffed and  body-searched household staff for over three hours, before confiscating a  set of industrial loudspeakers. The speakers were returned the same  day.<\/p>\n<p>But this is not just a passing spat between two high-profile investors.  Insiders say there is a wider long-running controversy which has serious  implications for the rule of law in the Bahamas, and has raised  concerns at the highest levels of government.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The reputational value of the Lyford Cay community to the Bahamas is incalculable. It is home to some of the world&#8217;s richest and most powerful individuals, including high-profile industrialists, financiers and politicians. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"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":[14],"tags":[35],"class_list":["post-339","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-opinions","tag-lyford-cay"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339","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\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=339"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=339"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=339"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=339"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}