{"id":19671,"date":"2012-03-21T09:26:12","date_gmt":"2012-03-21T13:26:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/?p=19671"},"modified":"2012-03-21T09:26:12","modified_gmt":"2012-03-21T13:26:12","slug":"turnquest-sues-miller-for-slander","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2012\/03\/turnquest-sues-miller-for-slander","title":{"rendered":"Turnquest Sues Miller For Slander"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_513\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-513\" style=\"width: 200px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-513\" title=\"tommy-turnquest\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/tommy-turnquest.jpg\" alt=\"Tommy Turnquest\" width=\"200\" height=\"150\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-513\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tommy Turnquest<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Minister of National Security Tommy Turnquest has sued Progressive Liberal Party (PLP) Tall Pines candidate Leslie Miller, accusing him of slander for allegedly suggesting he is a wife beater.<\/p>\n<p>A court document filed in support of Turnquest\u2019s lawsuit points to remarks Miller made at a Progressive Liberal Party rally in Golden Gates on March 5.<\/p>\n<p>The court document says Miller described Turnquest as \u201ca little poodle\u201d and further stated that, \u201cReal men don\u2019t beat their wife and force them to stay in hospital overnight&#8230; Real men don\u2019t beat up women but beat up real men&#8230; Real Bahamian men love up and adore Bahamian women. Only cowards and little poodles take advantage of innocent women\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>The court document says it was clear that Miller was accusing Turnquest of being a wife abuser or beater and that he has no respect for Bahamian women, and further the inference is that Turnquest is a coward.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c[Turnquest] claims that the allegations contained in [Miller\u2019s] aforesaid utterance are false in every material particular and that he has been severely damaged in his name and reputation and seeks damages&#8230;\u201d the document states.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Minister of National Security Tommy Turnquest is suing PLP Tall Pines candidate Leslie Miller for Miller&#8217;s slanderous comments suggesting that Turnquest is a wife beater<\/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":[151,168],"class_list":["post-19671","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-court","tag-politics-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19671","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=19671"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19671\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19671"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19671"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19671"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}