{"id":11936,"date":"2011-09-16T09:59:29","date_gmt":"2011-09-16T13:59:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/?p=11936"},"modified":"2011-09-16T10:09:57","modified_gmt":"2011-09-16T14:09:57","slug":"lawmakers-urged-to-obey-the-law","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2011\/09\/lawmakers-urged-to-obey-the-law","title":{"rendered":"Lawmakers Urged To Obey The Law"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Former Cabinet Minister Loftus Roker called on sitting members of Parliament to comply with public disclosure laws.<\/p>\n<p>Legislators who fail to adhere to their own rules should not expect an ordinary citizen not to break the law, Mr Roker said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Crime in the Bahamas is considered to be out of control. It has to be out of control when leaders (who) pass the law, then ignore the law and expect the lil&#8217; fella on the street to obey the law.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Political hypocrisy rears its abhorrent head when Bahamian leaders and legislators who make the laws ignore their own laws but then wonder why crime is out of control.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"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":[5],"tags":[93,31,49],"class_list":["post-11936","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-corruption","tag-crime","tag-law"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11936","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\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11936"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11936\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11936"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11936"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11936"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}