{"id":37634,"date":"2013-07-26T09:12:46","date_gmt":"2013-07-26T13:12:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/?p=37634"},"modified":"2013-07-26T09:13:04","modified_gmt":"2013-07-26T13:13:04","slug":"btc-explains-delays-in-island-wide-cctv-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2013\/07\/btc-explains-delays-in-island-wide-cctv-project","title":{"rendered":"BTC Explains Delays In Island-Wide CCTV Project"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_37643\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-37643\" style=\"width: 200px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-37643\" title=\"cctv-system\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/cctv-system.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/cctv-system.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/cctv-system-150x112.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-37643\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">example of a CCTV system<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The Bahamas Telecommunications Company (BTC) said it is nearly finished setting up a transport network\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 needed to support the government\u2019s closed circuit television (CCTV) network.<\/p>\n<p>The statement from BTC was in response to a statement made recently by Minister of National Security Dr. Bernard Nottage, who indicated that BTC was primarily to blame for the delay in an island-wide CCTV launch.<\/p>\n<p>The CCTV program will allow the Royal Bahamas Police Force (RBPF) to monitor surveillance footage from cameras set up at various public spaces in New Providence.<\/p>\n<p>Antonio Stubbs, BTC\u2019s senior vice president of technical services, said more than 200 cameras are presently installed and running, but require additional optimization.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have expanded our fiber optic network and built out the dedicated wireless infrastructure as a transport network to support the CCTV system,\u201d Stubbs said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe will complete the remainder of the sites once the power source has been connected.\u201d BTC said it will spend more than $2 million to create the network.<\/p>\n<p>It said it was contracted by the government in January to design and install the necessary infrastructure for CCTV to monitor public places selected by the police force.<\/p>\n<p>The program will include 243 cameras around New Providence during its initial phase.<\/p>\n<p>Nottage said the government was \u201clet down\u201d by BTC.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;BTC, they have really held us up,&#8221; Nottage told The Nassau Guardian.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;They have been somewhat tardy in what they have to do to get it up in time. But it&#8217;s part of their reality. Certainly in this particular instance, we have felt let down by them.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The program was started under the Ingraham administration.<\/p>\n<p>The government signed a $4.6 million contract in April 2012 with Lowe&#8217;s Security Limited, its U.S.-based partner Avrio RMS Group and Cayman Islands-based firm Security Centers International for the first phase of the CCTV project.<\/p>\n<p>Nottage revealed in March that the government had to spend an additional $1 million to finance the program.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #888888;\"><em>Taneka Thompson<\/em><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #888888;\"><em> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thenassauguardian.com\/index.php?option=com_content&amp;view=article&amp;id=40697\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #888888;\">The Nassau Guardian<\/span><\/a><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Bahamas Telecommunications Company (BTC) reported that more than 200 cameras are presently installed and running, but require additional optimization.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"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":[3],"tags":[36,31],"class_list":["post-37634","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","tag-btc","tag-crime"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37634","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\/25"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37634"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37634\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37634"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37634"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37634"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}