{"id":1585,"date":"2009-09-29T08:31:14","date_gmt":"2009-09-29T07:31:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/wordpress\/?p=1585"},"modified":"2009-09-29T08:31:14","modified_gmt":"2009-09-29T07:31:14","slug":"forgotten-world-182-antigua-and-barbuda","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=1585","title":{"rendered":"Forgotten World (182): Antigua and Barbuda"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Antigua_and_Barbuda\">Antigua and Barbuda<\/a> (Spanish for &#8220;Ancient&#8221; and &#8220;Bearded&#8221;) is one of the Caribbean&#8217;s most prosperous nations, thanks to its tourism industry and offshore financial services. The country&#8217;s strength lies in its tropical climate and good beaches, which have made it popular as a stop-off point for US cruise ships and have attracted large investments in infrastructure. The population is a mere 85,000.<br \/>\nFor decades Antigua and Barbuda&#8217;s politics was dominated by the Bird family, with Vere Bird being the country&#8217;s prime minister from independence in 1981 until 1994, when he was succeeded by his son, Lester, who spent a decade in office. Underlying this stability was a succession of scandals, including allegations of corruption. The Bird family was also accused of abuse of authority.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Antigua and Barbuda (Spanish for &#8220;Ancient&#8221; and &#8220;Bearded&#8221;) is one of the Caribbean&#8217;s most prosperous nations, thanks to its tourism industry and offshore financial services. The country&#8217;s strength lies in its tropical climate and good beaches, which have made it popular as a stop-off point for US cruise ships and have attracted large investments in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1585","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-world-current-affairs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1585","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1585"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1585\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1585"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1585"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1585"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}