{"id":7588,"date":"2011-04-08T09:51:18","date_gmt":"2011-04-08T13:51:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/?p=7588"},"modified":"2011-04-08T09:51:18","modified_gmt":"2011-04-08T13:51:18","slug":"woman-slaughtered-in-south-beach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2011\/04\/woman-slaughtered-in-south-beach","title":{"rendered":"Woman Slaughtered in South Beach"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Bahamas murder count increased again yesterday morning when a woman was stabbed and slaughtered in what police are calling a domestic violence dispute.<\/p>\n<p>This would be the 38th murder so far this year in the former island paradise.<\/p>\n<p>The yet to be indentified woman, believed to be in her 40s, was found lying on her back with multiple stab wounds in an apartment in South Beach.\u00a0 A 45 year-old man was picked up for questioning.<\/p>\n<p>This is the seventh female to be murdered in The Bahamas so far this year, possibly making it the highest per-capita rate for the murder of women anywhere in the world.<\/p>\n<p>Violence against women is everywhere in The Bahamas, where females are treated as second class citizens, denied the basic constitutional rights that men recieve.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It is like having the Taliban as government,&#8221; an unidentified woman told reporters.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If tourists only knew the way women suffer in the Bahamas, they might consider another destination for their vacation,&#8221; she added<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Bahamas murder count increased again yesterday morning when a woman was literally slaughtered in what police are calling a domestic violence dispute.<\/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":[12],"tags":[31],"class_list":["post-7588","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-headlines","tag-crime"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7588","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=7588"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7588\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7588"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7588"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7588"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}