{"id":194344,"date":"2017-05-13T09:41:03","date_gmt":"2017-05-13T13:41:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/target\/ready-to-govern-new-bahamas-pm-promises-new-direction"},"modified":"2017-05-13T09:41:03","modified_gmt":"2017-05-13T13:41:03","slug":"new-bahamas-pm-promises-no-victimization-under-his-administration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2017\/05\/new-bahamas-pm-promises-no-victimization-under-his-administration","title":{"rendered":"New Bahamas PM Promises No Victimization Under His Administration"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure style=\"width: 740px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/swearing-in-hubert-minnis.jpeg\" alt=\"Ready to Govern: New Bahamas PM Promises New Direction\" width=\"740\" height=\"493\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dr Hubert Minnis being sworn in as the fourth Prime Minister of The Bahamas by Governor General Dame Marguerite Pindling at Government House before family and friends, clergy, government officials, and party colleagues. (Photo credit: BIS\/Letisha Henderson)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>NASSAU, The Bahamas, Friday May 12, 2017 <\/strong>\u2013 Declaring it was a new day in The Bahamas, Dr Hubert Minnis was sworn in as the country\u2019s fourth prime minister last night, promising to chart a new course in the country.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI again thank the Bahamian people for reposing their trust in my party,\u201d the victorious Free National Movement (FNM) leader said in a brief maiden speech at Government House.<\/p>\n<p>The new Prime Minister however signaled that with the general election over, he was ready to get down to the business of governing a country where all citizens \u201cjoin hands and hearts\u201d to chart a new direction.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI pledge an unwavering commitment of congeniality, collaborative and collective responsibility. Ours is an extraordinary system of governance,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Dr Minnis has assured Bahamians there would be no victimization under his administration, describing that practice as \u201cunconstitutional and immoral.\u201d<\/p>\n<p id=\"mct-ai-attriblink\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.caribbean360.com\/news\/ready-govern-new-bahamas-pm-promises-new-direction\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Click here to read the complete article at www.caribbean360.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>But with a few of his Cabinet members well known for such behaviour, it remains to be seen whether victimization will truly come to an end.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":194345,"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-194344","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-headlines"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194344","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=194344"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194344\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/194345"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=194344"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=194344"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=194344"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}