{"id":34902,"date":"2019-09-15T20:46:03","date_gmt":"2019-09-15T20:46:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ismartnetwork.co.uk\/?p=34902"},"modified":"2019-09-15T20:46:03","modified_gmt":"2019-09-15T20:46:03","slug":"the-poor-are-punished-dorian-lays-bare-inequality-in-the-bahamas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ismartnetwork.co.uk\/?p=34902","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;The poor are punished&#8217;: Dorian lays bare inequality in the Bahamas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The tourist destination relies on a life support system of fishermen, inn workers and laborers. They&rsquo;ve been hardest hit <\/p>\n<p>Holidaymakers queuing at immigration at the Bahamas&rsquo; Nassau airport are still serenaded by three pink-shirted humankinds playing jovial music. They are still sunbathing on the beaches and still swimming in the sea. It is as if nothing has changed in paradise.<\/p>\n<p>Yet 40 minutes away by airplane, on the Abaco Islands, heaven turns to hell. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/news\/world\/abaco-islands-letter-d-marks-site-grim-recovery-effort-n1052166\">The Mudd ,<\/a> a shantytown that was home to the Bahamas&rsquo; biggest Haitian immigrant community, has been obliterated by Hurricane Dorian as if by a massive bomb.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/sep\/13\/hurricane-dorian-the-mudd-haitians-inequality\">Continue reading &#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<div style=\"clear:both;\"><\/div>\n<p>Read more: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/sep\/13\/hurricane-dorian-the-mudd-haitians-inequality\">theguardian.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The tourist destination relies on a life support system of fishermen, inn workers and laborers. They&rsquo;ve been hardest hit Holidaymakers queuing at immigration at the Bahamas&rsquo; Nassau airport are still serenaded by three pink-shirted humankinds playing jovial music. They are still sunbathing on the beaches and still swimming in the sea. It is as if &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":34903,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[13167,19786,11061,15610],"class_list":["post-34902","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-uncategorized","tag-bahamas","tag-haiti","tag-inequality","tag-world-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/ismartnetwork.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/45001568580363.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ismartnetwork.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34902","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ismartnetwork.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ismartnetwork.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ismartnetwork.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ismartnetwork.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=34902"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ismartnetwork.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34902\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ismartnetwork.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/34903"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ismartnetwork.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34902"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ismartnetwork.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34902"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ismartnetwork.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34902"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}