{"id":20827,"date":"2012-04-23T09:46:59","date_gmt":"2012-04-23T13:46:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/?p=20827"},"modified":"2012-04-23T10:17:58","modified_gmt":"2012-04-23T14:17:58","slug":"caribbean-politicians-create-integrity-deficit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2012\/04\/caribbean-politicians-create-integrity-deficit","title":{"rendered":"Caribbean Politicians Create &#8216;Integrity Deficit&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_18427\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-18427\" style=\"width: 250px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-18427\" title=\"government-corruption\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/government-corruption-250x161.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"250\" height=\"161\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/government-corruption-250x161.jpg 250w, https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/government-corruption-150x97.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/government-corruption.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-18427\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Corruption Destroying The Caribbean<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Grenada&#8217;s Prime Minister Tillman Thomas has suggested that  Grenada and the world will be better served if people were to embrace  and demonstrate greater integrity, such as honesty and uprightness.<\/p>\n<p>The prime minister has identified what he called an \u201cintegrity-deficit\u201d in society.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI believe it\u2019s the integrity-deficit that\u2019s the problem in the world,\u201d  Thomas said in an interview with the Government Information Services.<\/p>\n<p>The prime minister, who is approaching his fourth year as the nation\u2019s  leader, is well-known for his strong moral and religious stance.<\/p>\n<p>He has championed the need for a \u201cvalue-driven\u201d society, and has made  the concept of \u201cgood governance, transparency and accountability\u201d the  hallmark of his National Democratic Congress (NDC) administration.<\/p>\n<p>He recently confessed to division in the NDC, saying it was a fight between \u201cthe forces of good and evil\u201d in the party.<\/p>\n<p>In the GIS interview, Thomas said that he viewed life through the lens  of \u201cgood and evil,\u201d referencing a Bible passage that describes a fight  taking place \u2013 not between \u201cflesh and blood\u201d \u2013 but against the \u201crulers  of darkness\u201d and against \u201cspiritual wickedness in high places.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #888888;\"><em><strong>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.caribbeannewsnow.com\" target=\"_blank\">Caribbean News Now<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Corrupt politicians and selfish, crooked lawyers are destroying the Caribbean, creating an integrity deficit resulting in bad governance that lacks transparency and accountability.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"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":[100,93,168],"class_list":["post-20827","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-headlines","tag-caribbean-2","tag-corruption","tag-politics-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20827","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\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20827"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20827\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20827"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20827"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20827"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}