{"id":239852,"date":"2002-11-08T11:49:06","date_gmt":"2002-11-08T16:49:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/?p=239852"},"modified":"2021-02-14T08:59:56","modified_gmt":"2021-02-14T13:59:56","slug":"ridiculous-and-excessive-board-appointments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2002\/11\/ridiculous-and-excessive-board-appointments","title":{"rendered":"Ridiculous and Excessive Board Appointments"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>General Motors Corporation is the largest company on earth. They do BILLIONS of dollars in business every year and they make a substantial profit. <BR><br \/>\nThey have 12 members on their board of directors. <\/p>\n<p><P>Our public corporations, which are paltry in comparison and DO NOT make a profit, each have 20 and 24 members on them. <\/P><\/p>\n<p><P>How can we justify dozens of useless syncophants on the boards of our public corporations when the largest company on earth only needs 12 people? <\/P><\/p>\n<p><P>Anyone who would accept a board appointment under those circunstances is as guilty of wasting the public&#8217;s money as the corrupt politicians who name the boards. <\/P><\/p>\n<p><P>Here we go again with the evil Pingdom empire. These corporate boards are just a way to further enrich the same bunch of crooks who have been raping the Bahamian public for thrity years and blaming foreigners and whites for keeping them down. <\/P><\/p>\n<p><P>Now, I hear Bahamasair board members will fly free. Are these the same losers who can&#8217;t run the company well enough to make a profit. I think they ought to pay DOUBLE!!!<\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Letter to the Editor<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","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-239852","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-headlines"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239852","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=239852"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239852\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":241226,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239852\/revisions\/241226"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=239852"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=239852"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=239852"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}