{"id":9645,"date":"2011-06-27T07:14:56","date_gmt":"2011-06-27T11:14:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/?p=9645"},"modified":"2011-06-27T07:14:56","modified_gmt":"2011-06-27T11:14:56","slug":"u-s-throws-77m-at-caribbean-for-drug-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2011\/06\/u-s-throws-77m-at-caribbean-for-drug-war","title":{"rendered":"U.S. Throws $77m at Caribbean For Drug War"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The United States government has allocated $77 million in the 2011 fiscal year for its Caribbean Basin Security Initiative.<\/p>\n<p>Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton made the announcement  earlier this week at a Caribbean Community (CARICOM) meeting in Montego  Bay, Jamaica.<\/p>\n<p>The sum also marks an increase of more than 70 percent of what was allocated in 2010 for the initiative.<\/p>\n<p>A comprehensive regional approach is necessary  in the fight against drug trafficking to avoid pushing violence from  one country to another, she said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We have worked with The Bahamas to train police officers on  detecting firearms trafficking and begun to certify drug abuse  facilities throughout the Caribbean,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The United States government has allocated $77 million in the 2011 fiscal year for its Caribbean Basin Security Initiative, primarily for the fight against drug trafficking.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"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":[100,67,113],"class_list":["post-9645","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-headlines","tag-caribbean-2","tag-drugs","tag-united-states"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9645","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\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9645"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9645\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9645"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9645"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9645"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}