{"id":47495,"date":"2014-01-27T08:54:28","date_gmt":"2014-01-27T13:54:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/?p=47495"},"modified":"2014-01-27T08:54:28","modified_gmt":"2014-01-27T13:54:28","slug":"u-s-tourists-robbed-at-gunpoint-at-the-beach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2014\/01\/u-s-tourists-robbed-at-gunpoint-at-the-beach","title":{"rendered":"U.S. Tourists Robbed at Gunpoint at the Beach"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-33258\" title=\"robbery-s\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/robbery-s.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/robbery-s.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/robbery-s-150x112.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/>Crime against U.S. tourists continues to increase at an alarming rate in The Bahamas, with the latest incident involving two tourists who were robbed at gunpoint at a local beach in Nassau.<\/p>\n<p>The incident took place in broad daylight, around 4:00pm in the afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>The man and woman were at Jaws Beach in western New Providence when they were approached by two men with a weapon.\u00a0 The men took a backpack containing cash and other valuables, then took the couple&#8217;s rented Suzuki Swift automobile and sped off.<\/p>\n<p>The U.S. government had recently issued a warning regarding the high level of crime in The Bahamas, which has higher armed robbery and murder rates than any city in the United States, except maybe Detroit.<\/p>\n<p>The Bahamas also has the one of the highest rape rates in\u00a0 the world.<\/p>\n<p>Many travel agents around the world are recommending that their clients find other destinations to visit for their own safety.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Crime against U.S. tourists continues to increase at an alarming rate in The Bahamas, with the latest incident involving a couple who were robbed at gunpoint at a local beach in Nassau.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":33258,"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":[812,31,33,113],"class_list":["post-47495","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-headlines","tag-armed-robbery","tag-crime","tag-tourism","tag-united-states"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47495","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=47495"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47495\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33258"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47495"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47495"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47495"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}