{"id":21119,"date":"2012-04-30T13:16:33","date_gmt":"2012-04-30T17:16:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/?p=21119"},"modified":"2012-04-30T13:28:46","modified_gmt":"2012-04-30T17:28:46","slug":"plp-recycles-scandal-tainted-candidates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2012\/04\/plp-recycles-scandal-tainted-candidates","title":{"rendered":"PLP Recycles Scandal-Tainted Candidates"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_21121\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-21121\" style=\"width: 200px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-21121\" title=\"plp-recycled\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/plp-recycled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/plp-recycled.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/plp-recycled-150x112.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-21121\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">same old plp<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The Claim: In the 2012 PLP charter, Perry Christie pledged to \u201cplace the interests of the Country before any personal interest\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>The Truth: \u00a0In 2002 Perry Christie also stated that &#8220;If public confidence in the integrity of the political directorate of The Bahamas is to become a hallmark of our political culture, it is of first importance that the Prime Minister and other Ministers of Government observe &#8211; and be seen to observe &#8211; the highest standards of probity in public life.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He went on, instead, to lead the most corrupt government in the history of the independent Bahamas. Here is a fine selection of the PLP&#8217;s eminent &#8216;ethical&#8217; governance:<\/p>\n<p>\u00f1 Bradley Roberts, PLP National Chair, conspired with the Water and Sewerage Corporation&#8217;s chairman to tender public contracts to BK Water, a company presided by Jerome Fitzgerald, now a PLP Senator.<\/p>\n<p>\u00f1 Fred Mitchell was involved in the notorious Chinese visas scandal;<\/p>\n<p>\u00f1 Shane Gibson, then Immigration Minister, was involved in the shady incident regarding the Anna Nicole Smith residency application.<\/p>\n<p>\u00f1 Leslie Miller, former Minister of Trade and Industry, signed the detrimental Petrocaribe agreement with Venezuela<\/p>\n<p>\u00f1 Allyson Maynard-Gibson&#8217;s (now a PLP Senator) former law firm benefited from the LNG pipeline contract, while she was Attorney General.<\/p>\n<p>The 2012 PLP charter, published amid fresh admissions about Perry Christie&#8217;s and Brave Davis&#8217; connections with foreign oil companies that want to drill in Bahamian waters, does not mention the word &#8216;ethics&#8217; once; but all of the above are running for re-election on May 7th.<\/p>\n<p>Same PLP. Same Empty Promises<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Christie, who in 2002 led the most corrupt government in the history of the independent Bahamas, is now presenting many of the same scandal-tarnished candidates.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"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":[60,38],"class_list":["post-21119","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-plp","tag-police"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21119","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=21119"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21119\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21119"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}