{"id":2002,"date":"2010-09-14T08:31:00","date_gmt":"2010-09-14T12:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/?p=2002"},"modified":"2010-09-14T08:31:00","modified_gmt":"2010-09-14T12:31:00","slug":"deveaux-accused-of-conflict-of-interest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2010\/09\/deveaux-accused-of-conflict-of-interest","title":{"rendered":"Deveaux Accused of Conflict of Interest"},"content":{"rendered":"

While confirming that he has received special favours from a wealthy land owner, Environment Minister Earl Deveaux says it will not influence his decision on granting approvals on development applications currently before his ministry.<\/p>\n

Mr Deveaux confirmed that he accepted rides in a luxury helicopter owned by the Aga Khan<\/a>, a mega-rich owner of a private island in the Exuma Cays Land and Sea Park.<\/p>\n

The Minister, who has responsibility for approving developments, hopped a ride in the Aga Khan’s 12-seat helicopter to attend a film screening in Abaco before flying to Bell Island in Exuma.\u00a0 Mr Deveaux was to do a land assessment with executive members of the Bahamas National Trust (BNT) the next day.<\/p>\n

Mr Kahn has submitted plans to develop Bell Island, including the dredging of a channel 15 feet deep to accommodate his yacht.<\/p>\n

Although he is inclined to approve the development, Deveaux denied that his opinion would be influenced by a helicopter ride.<\/p>\n

“I don’t think a helicopter ride could buy me and I don’t think it could alter my opinion,” the Minister said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Environment Minister Earl Deveaux denies he was influenced by special favours granted to him by a wealthy land owner who has applications before his ministry. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"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":[76,59],"class_list":["post-2002","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-headlines","tag-environment-2","tag-islands"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2002","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2002"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2002\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2002"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2002"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2002"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}