{"id":13632,"date":"2011-10-16T16:33:08","date_gmt":"2011-10-16T20:33:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/?guid=ed209955e2f93e66d5c05def7b298c0a"},"modified":"2011-10-16T16:35:34","modified_gmt":"2011-10-16T20:35:34","slug":"public-demanding-harsher-penalties-for-criminals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2011\/10\/public-demanding-harsher-penalties-for-criminals","title":{"rendered":"Public Demanding Harsher Penalties For Criminals"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Member of Parliament for Pineridge, Kwasi Thompson gave his support for the package of crime bills up for debate in the House of Assembly yesterday, noting that crime is a huge problem that is affecting Bahamians regardless of political affiliation or age bracket.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We have reached a murder count that we have never seen before. This is a different Bahamas and crime has all Bahamians concerned and Bahamians are calling for major changes that will impact crime,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;They are calling for action. They are calling for stiffer penalties and harsher punishments. They want us to take the gloves off and take the fight to the criminals.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He noted that the government is attempting to address the country&#8217;s accelerating rate of crime by putting in place stiffer penalties for criminals, increasing the number of judges and courts and embarking on anti-crime projects.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Member of Parliament for Pineridge, Kwasi Thompson gave his support for the package of crime bills up for debate in the House of Assembly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"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":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13632","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-headlines"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13632","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\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13632"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13632\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13632"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13632"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13632"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}