{"id":204734,"date":"2017-10-28T09:44:00","date_gmt":"2017-10-28T13:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/target\/christie-the-weakest-leader-of-the-bahamas"},"modified":"2017-10-28T09:44:00","modified_gmt":"2017-10-28T13:44:00","slug":"christie-the-weakest-leader-of-the-bahamas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2017\/10\/christie-the-weakest-leader-of-the-bahamas","title":{"rendered":"Christie \u2018The Weakest\u2019 Leader Of The Bahamas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/10262017_LastDayPLPconvention14JPG_t670.jpeg\" alt=\"Christie \u2018The Weakest\u2019 Leader Of The Bahamas\" width=\"670\" height=\"446\" \/><\/p>\n<p>WHEN the history of Bahamian political leaders is written, former Prime Minister Perry Christie will be considered \u201cthe weakest\u201d to have held office, according to former Progressive Liberal Party MP Philip Galanis.<\/p>\n<p>During a presentation at the Rotary Club of Southeast Nassau at East Villa restaurant yesterday, the former Englerston MP insisted Mr Christie\u2019s \u201cintoxication with power and delusional sense of self-importance,\u201d paired with his inability to address charges of corruption and conflicts of interest within his Cabinet, caused the PLP irreparable harm.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI firmly believe that political historians will say Sir Lynden (Pindling) was of both substance and form; Mr (Hubert) Ingraham will be characterised as one who preferred substance over form, but Mr Christie however will be memorialised as one who opted for form over substance,\u201d he said, referring to the country\u2019s former prime ministers.<\/p>\n<p id=\"mct-ai-attriblink\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tribune242.com\/news\/2017\/oct\/26\/christie-weakest-leader-bahamas\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Click here to read the complete article at www.tribune242.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Prime Minister Perry Christie will be considered \u201cthe weakest\u201d to have held office, according to former Progressive Liberal Party MP Philip Galanis.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":204735,"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-204734","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\/204734","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=204734"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204734\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/204735"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=204734"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=204734"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=204734"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}