{"id":8823,"date":"2011-05-23T20:38:28","date_gmt":"2011-05-24T00:38:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/?p=8823"},"modified":"2011-05-23T20:38:28","modified_gmt":"2011-05-24T00:38:28","slug":"record-ride-for-cancer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2011\/05\/record-ride-for-cancer","title":{"rendered":"Record Ride For Cancer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-8824\" title=\"bob-ride-sponsor\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/bob-ride-sponsor.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"540\" height=\"250\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/bob-ride-sponsor.jpg 540w, https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/bob-ride-sponsor-150x69.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/bob-ride-sponsor-250x115.jpg 250w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 540px) 100vw, 540px\" \/>Thanks to sponsors like Bank of The Bahamas, it was a record year in riders and fund-raising for Ride for Hope, the organisation created to fund and support cancer education, research, prevention and treatment.<\/p>\n<p>According to Stephen Holowesko (centre with white cap), riders and their sponsors helped raise more than $400,000 during the April event in Eleuthera with more participants than ever completing the 100-mile course.<\/p>\n<p>On Saturday, part of BOB&#8217;s team of 16, was on hand in Nassau for the official cheque presentation. The bank donated $12,160, some $10,000 from BOB and another $2,160 from rider sponsorships or individual staff contributions.<\/p>\n<p>Pictured l-r, BOB&#8217;s riders Jeffrey Burnside, Olga Cartwright and Ian Thompson, Ride for Hope&#8217;s Stephen Holowesko, and other BOB team members Jermaine Turnquest, Riccara Bowe, Managing Director Paul McWeeney and Michael Basden. (Photo by Roland Rose for DP&amp;A)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thanks to sponsors like Bank of The Bahamas, it was a record year in riders and fund-raising for Ride for Hope, the organisation created to fund and support cancer education, research, prevention and treatment. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"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":[1],"tags":[83,61,19],"class_list":["post-8823","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local","tag-banks","tag-charity","tag-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8823","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\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8823"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8823\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8823"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8823"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8823"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}