{"id":20699,"date":"2018-12-07T14:35:38","date_gmt":"2018-12-07T03:35:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=20699"},"modified":"2018-12-07T14:35:38","modified_gmt":"2018-12-07T03:35:38","slug":"gm-mosquitos-failed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=20699","title":{"rendered":"GM Mosquitos Failed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The environmental health minister, who has responsibility for the Mosquito Research and Control Unit (MRCU) has said the release of genetically modified Aedes aegypti mosquitoes in West Bay did not work and has confirmed that when the Oxitec contract formally ends on 31 December, that will be \u201cthe last you hear about Oxitec being paid by government\u201d. Answering questions in Finance Committee on Thursday night, Dwayne Seymour said that the project \u201cwasn\u2019t getting the results that we thought we could get\u201d, and if not for the \u201cgood MRCU director, Dr Jim, we would have never have known about it\u201d.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/caymannewsservice.com\/2018\/11\/gm-mosquitoes-didnt-work\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/caymannewsservice.com\/2018\/11\/gm-mosquitoes-didnt-work<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The environmental health minister, who has responsibility for the Mosquito Research and Control Unit (MRCU) has said the release of genetically modified Aedes aegypti mosquitoes in West Bay did not work and has confirmed that when the Oxitec contract formally ends on 31 December, that will be \u201cthe last you hear about Oxitec being paid &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=20699\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;GM Mosquitos Failed&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20699","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-interest","category-health-tips"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20699","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20699"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20699\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20700,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20699\/revisions\/20700"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20699"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20699"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20699"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}