{"id":8417,"date":"2011-05-09T08:28:58","date_gmt":"2011-05-09T12:28:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/?p=8417"},"modified":"2011-05-09T09:08:26","modified_gmt":"2011-05-09T13:08:26","slug":"urca-ceo-resigns-after-receiving-threats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2011\/05\/urca-ceo-resigns-after-receiving-threats","title":{"rendered":"URCA CEO Resigns After Receiving Threats"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The chief executive officer of the Utilities Regulation and Competition Authority (URCA), Usman Saadat, resigned his post yesterday, citing &#8220;personal attacks on him and his family.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The announcement came the same day two men were indicted for death threats against independent Member of Parliament Branville McCartney.<\/p>\n<p>When asked to clarify the nature of the &#8220;personal attacks,&#8221; Kathleen Smith, URCA director of policy and regulation speaking on Mr Saadat&#8217;s behalf, refused to elaborate further.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Usman Saadat resigned as chief executive officer of the Utilities Regulation and Competition Authority (URCA) after receiving death threats against him and his family.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"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":[15],"tags":[93],"class_list":["post-8417","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tech","tag-corruption"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8417","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\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8417"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8417\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8417"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8417"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8417"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}