{"id":21514,"date":"2012-05-09T09:26:39","date_gmt":"2012-05-09T13:26:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/?p=21514"},"modified":"2012-05-09T09:26:39","modified_gmt":"2012-05-09T13:26:39","slug":"u-s-reservedly-congratulates-perry-christie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2012\/05\/u-s-reservedly-congratulates-perry-christie","title":{"rendered":"U.S. Reservedly Congratulates Perry Christie"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_19508\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-19508\" style=\"width: 200px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-19508\" title=\"us-embassy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/us-embassy.jpg\" alt=\"U.S. Embassy\" width=\"200\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/us-embassy.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/us-embassy-150x112.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-19508\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">U.S. Embassy<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>United States Department of State insiders personally expressed grief that the PLP had won the Bahamas election, although officially, the U.S. Embassy congratulated Prime Minister Perry Christie in a short but sweet press release.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I can not say that anyone is happy that the Bahamas government is now being controlled by a drug lawyer,&#8221; said one official, insisting on anonymity and speaking off-the-record.<\/p>\n<p>The reference was to Philip &#8216;Brave&#8217; Davis, who was, and apparently still is, the lawyer for convicted drug kingpin, Samuel &#8216;Ninety&#8217; Knowles, who is serving a lengthy jail term in\u00a0 the United States on drug charges.\u00a0 It is not known how Mr Davis&#8217;s firm will handle his many criminal clients now that he\u00a0 will be made Deputy Prime Minister.<\/p>\n<p>Officially, this is what the U.S. had to say:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>We congratulate Prime Minister The Right Honorable Perry G. Christie  of  the Progressive Liberal Party. The people of The Bahamas have once  again  demonstrated their commitment to democratic values that the  United  States and The Bahamas share.\u00a0 This expression of the will of  the  Bahamian people in free, fair, and transparent elections reaffirms  The  Bahamas\u2019 status as a model of good governance not only in the  region,  but in the world.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>The United States and The Bahamas share a lasting friendship based  upon  strong economic, cultural, and historic ties that bind our  nations.\u00a0  This friendship is further strengthened by our shared  commitment to  promoting democracy,\u00a0economic prosperity, and security  around the globe.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>We look forward to working with Prime Minister The Right Honorable  Perry  G. Christie as we continue to strengthen our partnership and  advance  common goals for both our nations.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>United States Department of State insiders personally expressed grief that the PLP had won the Bahamas election, although officially, the U.S. Embassy congratulated Prime Minister Perry Christie in a short but sweet press release.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"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":[93,40,60,168,113],"class_list":["post-21514","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-headlines","tag-corruption","tag-government","tag-plp","tag-politics-2","tag-united-states"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21514","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\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21514"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21514\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21514"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21514"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21514"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}