{"id":657828,"date":"2010-02-08T11:07:16","date_gmt":"2010-02-08T16:07:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/globalvoicesonline.org\/?p=121798"},"modified":"2010-02-08T11:07:16","modified_gmt":"2010-02-08T16:07:16","slug":"jamaica-barbados-haiti-defending-haitians","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/657828","title":{"rendered":"Jamaica, Barbados, Haiti: Defending Haitians"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In response to a statement that the arrival of Haitian refugees in Jamaica could be seen as a threat to public health, <em><a href=\"http:\/\/longbench.wordpress.com\/2010\/02\/05\/sorry-fi-haiti-but-scorn-haitians\/\">Long Bench<\/a><\/em> republishes a Letter to the Editor that he wrote: &#8220;Haitian refugees are not criminals, and should not be treated by citizens or represented in the media as such&#8221;; <em><a href=\"http:\/\/barbadosfreepress.wordpress.com\/2010\/02\/08\/barbados-refuses-request-to-look-after-injured-haitians-even-one-is-too-many-for-our-health-care-system-says-bajan-foreign-minister\/\">Barbados Free Press<\/a><\/em> is also critical of its country&#39;s response to helping Haiti: &#8220;It didn\u2019t take long to cut through the Bajan veneer of sincerity about Haiti, did it?&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In response to a statement that the arrival of Haitian refugees in Jamaica could be seen as a threat to public health, Long Bench republishes a Letter to the Editor that he wrote: &#8220;Haitian refugees are not criminals, and should not be treated by citizens or represented in the media as such&#8221;; Barbados Free Press [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2616,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-657828","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2L88","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/657828","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2616"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=657828"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/657828\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=657828"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=657828"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=657828"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}