{"id":7390,"date":"2011-03-30T21:26:07","date_gmt":"2011-03-31T01:26:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/?p=7390"},"modified":"2011-03-30T21:27:08","modified_gmt":"2011-03-31T01:27:08","slug":"primary-school-closes-due-to-rat-infestation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2011\/03\/primary-school-closes-due-to-rat-infestation","title":{"rendered":"Rats Force School To Close"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An apparent rat infestation at Bartlett Hill Primary School has triggered Ministry of Education officials to shut the school down for three days as they deal with the problem.<\/p>\n<p>The Freeport News was made aware of the situation yesterday with sources sharing that the rodents are frequently seen scurrying around the campus playing and sometimes harassing the young students.<\/p>\n<p>Quinton Laroda, area vice president for The Bahamas Union of Teachers said that he became aware of the problem a week-and-half ago when he was notified by the school&#8217;s shop steward.<\/p>\n<p>He said the vermin are a major cause of concern because they carry diseases and pose an even bigger threat since they are in a primary school environment around young children.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An apparent rat infestation at Bartlett Hill Primary School has triggered Ministry of Education officials to shut the school down for three days as they deal with the problem.<\/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":[12],"tags":[19,140],"class_list":["post-7390","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-headlines","tag-health","tag-schools"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7390","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=7390"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7390\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7390"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7390"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7390"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}