{"id":19086,"date":"2012-03-09T12:33:11","date_gmt":"2012-03-09T17:33:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/?p=19086"},"modified":"2012-03-09T12:33:11","modified_gmt":"2012-03-09T17:33:11","slug":"ingraham-condemns-actions-of-plp-mps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2012\/03\/ingraham-condemns-actions-of-plp-mps","title":{"rendered":"Ingraham Condemns Actions of PLP MPs"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_19091\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-19091\" style=\"width: 249px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-19091\" title=\"ingraham-house\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/ingraham-house-e1331314366888.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"249\" height=\"203\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/ingraham-house-e1331314366888.jpg 249w, https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/ingraham-house-e1331314366888-150x122.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 249px) 100vw, 249px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-19091\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Prime Minister Hubert Ingraham<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Prime  Minister Hubert Ingraham said yesterday that attempts by Progressive  Liberal Party (PLP) MPs to prevent Pineridge MP Kwasi Thompson from  presenting a minority report on the New Providence Road Improvement  Project (NPRIP) were &#8220;absolutely disgraceful&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Thompson is a member of the Public Accounts Committee (PAC), whose  chairman, Dr. Bernard Nottage, presented the PAC\u2019s official report in  the House of Assembly on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I\u2019ve been in Parliament now for 34 years,&#8221; Ingraham told reporters  at a luncheon yesterday.\u00a0 &#8220;No political party has ever carried on like  that over any issue at any time.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It was absolutely disgraceful and unbecoming, but as I said at a  public meeting recently, as election gets nearer the PLP becomes more  and more desperate and they would get nastier in terms of the things  they say and do. Today was clearly an example of that.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>PLP Member of Parliament Frank Smith, who was standing in front of  Thompson, actually pushed his microphone away from him on more than one  occasion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prime Minister Hubert Ingraham said that attempts by PLP MPs to prevent Pineridge MP Kwasi Thompson from presenting a minority report on the New Providence Road Improvement Project were &#8220;absolutely disgraceful&#8221;.<\/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":[93,230,60,344],"class_list":["post-19086","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-headlines","tag-corruption","tag-parliament","tag-plp","tag-snakes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19086","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=19086"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19086\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19086"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19086"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19086"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}