{"id":223285,"date":"2019-07-18T21:52:30","date_gmt":"2019-07-19T01:52:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/target\/revs-campbell-politicians-are-robbing-spots-from-grass-root-people"},"modified":"2019-07-18T21:52:32","modified_gmt":"2019-07-19T01:52:32","slug":"revs-campbell-politicians-are-robbing-spots-from-grass-root-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2019\/07\/revs-campbell-politicians-are-robbing-spots-from-grass-root-people","title":{"rendered":"Rev Campbell: \u201cPoliticians are robbing spots from grass-root people!\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/target\/revs-campbell-politicians-are-robbing-spots-from-grass-root-people\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Picture-10-534x800.png\" alt=\"Fr. Solomon Sebastian Campbell seated in his Stall in the Cathedral.\" width=\"534\" height=\"800\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>NASSAU, BAHAMAS \u2013 Following the release of the 21 Bahamians expected to receive national honors, Reverend Canon Sebastian Campbell, who chairs the National Heroes Committee, said politicians are \u201crobbing spots from grass-root people\u201d on the list.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe program is supposed to be for persons of lower degree,\u201d he told Eyewitness News Online.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt seems as though the committee has done no work at all to go to those far flung islands and cays to find the grassroot persons to honor them.<\/p>\n<p>Criticizing the work of the National Independence Committee, which released the list of honorees on Independence Day last week, Campbell said, \u201cpoliticians are robbing spots from grassroot people\u201d and he was \u201csorely disappointed\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>He said this not the true objective of the honors program.<\/p>\n<p id=\"mct-ai-attriblink\"><a href=\"http:\/\/bahamaspress.com\/2019\/07\/16\/revs-campbell-politicians-are-robbing-spots-from-grassroot-people\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Click here to read the complete article at bahamaspress.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NASSAU, BAHAMAS \u2013 Following the release of the 21 Bahamians expected to receive national honors, Reverend Canon Sebastian Campbell, who chairs the National Heroes Committee,&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":223287,"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":[12,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-223285","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-headlines","category-lifestyle"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223285","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=223285"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223285\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/223287"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=223285"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=223285"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=223285"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}