{"id":6521,"date":"2011-02-22T10:02:51","date_gmt":"2011-02-22T15:02:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/?p=6521"},"modified":"2011-02-22T10:02:51","modified_gmt":"2011-02-22T15:02:51","slug":"claims-of-immigration-officials-mistreating-haitians","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2011\/02\/claims-of-immigration-officials-mistreating-haitians","title":{"rendered":"Claims of Immigration Officials Mistreating Haitians"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On a visit to Grand Bahama, Haitian Ambassador to the Bahamas Antonio Rodrigue heard reports of mistreatment and abuse of Haitians at the hands of the island&#8217;s immigration officials.<\/p>\n<p>The ambassador paid a courtesy call on local immigration officials and met with members of the Haitian community on the island who also registered complaints of being refused work permit approvals.<\/p>\n<p>Grand Bahama has one of the largest Haitian populations in the Bahamas, outside of New Providence.\u00a0 It was the ambassador&#8217;s first visit to the island since taking up his appointment in October at the Embassy of the Republic of Haiti in Nassau.<\/p>\n<p>During a two hour meeting, the Ambassador said Haitians had expressed concerns about a number of things, including the inefficient service at the Haitian Embassy, claims of mistreatment and abuse during apprehension exercises, and work permit related issues.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On his recent visit to Grand Bahama, Haitian Ambassador to the Bahamas Antonio Rodrigue heard reports of mistreatment and abuse of Haitians at the hands of the island&#8217;s immigration officials.<\/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":[18],"tags":[81,112,41],"class_list":["post-6521","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lifestyle","tag-grand-bahama","tag-haiti","tag-immigration"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6521","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=6521"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6521\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6521"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6521"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6521"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}