{"id":19401,"date":"2012-03-14T13:25:26","date_gmt":"2012-03-14T17:25:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/?p=19401"},"modified":"2012-03-14T23:45:50","modified_gmt":"2012-03-15T03:45:50","slug":"ingraham-keeping-bahamas-afloat-in-tough-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2012\/03\/ingraham-keeping-bahamas-afloat-in-tough-times","title":{"rendered":"Ingraham Keeping Bahamas Afloat In Tough Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_19405\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-19405\" style=\"width: 200px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-19405\" title=\"hubert-ingraham-fnm-rally\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/hubert-ingraham-fnm-rally.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/hubert-ingraham-fnm-rally.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/hubert-ingraham-fnm-rally-150x112.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-19405\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Prime Minister Hubert Ingraham (left) alongside Free National Movement (FNM) candidate for St. Anne\u2019s Hubert Chipman, during the official opening of the FNM\u2019s St. Anne\u2019s constituency office last night. Edward Russell III \/ TNG<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Prime Minister Hubert Ingraham claimed last night that Progressive Liberal Party (PLP) Senator Allyson Maynard-Gibson once told him she is pleased he is governing the country during tough times.<\/p>\n<p>Ingraham said if the FNM government did not have \u2018decisive leadership\u2019, the will, the determination and the courage to do certain things, \u201cthen the Great Recession would have been worse for this country\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have not had to lay off civil servants like some developed countries have had to do,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnybody who believes that (PLP leader) Perry Christie and the PLP would have done better is simply living in a dream world of unreality.<\/p>\n<p>The PLP has repeatedly accused the FNM administration of worsening economic conditions through some of its actions.<\/p>\n<p>Ingraham said, \u201cThe country cannot afford to go backwards to the reckless, do-nothing, scandal-ridden days of the weakest government in Bahamian history.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Ingraham also hit at repeated criticisms from the PLP that his administration drove up the national debt substantially through borrowing.<\/p>\n<p>He noted that the PLP\u2019s parliamentary team supported \u201cevery loan and every borrowing we undertook except for one \u2014 the $40 million airport gateway project. That\u2019s the one bringing water to you in eastern New Providence.<\/p>\n<p>The prime minister said, \u201cWe borrowed because we decided it was better to take advantage of our borrowing headroom to get projects done to transform our capital city, to improve and upgrade infrastructure in our Family Islands and to cushion the severity of the global recession.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd we created thousands of jobs for Bahamians in these difficult times; we did it so the country would be in a better position to move ahead when the bad times ended.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ingraham said, \u201cThe country cannot afford to go backwards to the reckless, do-nothing, scandal-ridden days of the weakest government in Bahamian history.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"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":[263,40,60,156],"class_list":["post-19401","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-foolishness","tag-government","tag-plp","tag-stupidity"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19401","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\/25"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19401"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19401\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19401"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19401"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19401"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}