{"id":239902,"date":"2002-11-13T17:56:25","date_gmt":"2002-11-13T22:56:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/?p=239902"},"modified":"2021-02-14T08:59:39","modified_gmt":"2021-02-14T13:59:39","slug":"does-honour-system-work-in-the-bahamas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2002\/11\/does-honour-system-work-in-the-bahamas","title":{"rendered":"Does &#8216;Honour&#8217; System Work In The Bahamas?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On perusing the 9th November edition of the Nassau Guardian &#8211; Letters to the Editor section &#8211; I almost suffered a cardiac seizure when I saw a letter under the sub-heading &#8220;Thiefing has become accepted way of life for Bahamians&#8221; by one Ortland H Bodie Jr. This my friends is straight from the horse&#8217;s mouth. <\/P><\/p>\n<p><P>For at least three years the media-reading members of this country were sufferers from a complaint called &#8216;eye-ache&#8217; from the constant written garbage by a discard who started a one-man campaign in support of one Honourable Hubert Alexander Ingraham, P C, M P and any other Ps and Cs that caught the gleam of the one-sided, glance of the Bahamian political landscape at the time. <\/P><\/p>\n<p><P>According to him, Hubert Ingraham was a messenger, redeemer and saviour sent from on high to save this country. <\/P><\/p>\n<p><P>All of this, mind you &#8211; dear readers &#8211; after Ingraham took him off the soup line, away from the brink of death by malnutrition, and gave him a decent salary from the Public Treasury &#8211; our money &#8211; and the ex professional did not have the decency or human compassion to try and reimburse the hapless victims of his treacherous, unprofessional, immoral, and criminal betrayal of a kind and trusting client. <\/P><\/p>\n<p><P>According to him, the PLP was a defunct entity and Hubert Alexander <\/P><\/p>\n<p><P>Ingraham and his FNM was what was happening. <\/P><\/p>\n<p><P>Shortly after the FNM&#8217;s disastrous demise, Ingraham was called everything but the child of God by this villain, who should have been cutting rock in Her Majesty&#8217;s resort at Fox Hill. <\/P><\/p>\n<p><P>The Hon Minister is quite correct in asking for a Select Committee to investigate a certain matter, and if criminality is proven and culprits identified, the facts are then turned over to the relevant authorities for prosecution &#8211; unlike in the case of one Orthland H Bodie Jr who should have been taken before the Courts to receive his just reward instead of being let off by being disbarred, to become a political tick sticking to the hides of national leaders, sucking the financial blood of Bahamian tax payers. <\/P><\/p>\n<p><P>He is naturally without shame or sense of honesty. <\/P><\/p>\n<p><P>It is a known fact that George Smith, ldris Reid and Paul Major, never as far as I can remember, tried to remind John Q Public of their presence in society. <\/P><\/p>\n<p><P>We really only know of their continued existence in society when others remind us of their presence. <\/P><\/p>\n<p><P>Mr Bodie, this arena of which we so often hear about by your constant writings, really should be an enclosure 6&#8242; x 8&#8242; in her Majesty&#8217;s Resort; for any one suffering from so huge a dose of ingratitude should be permanently isolated from decent God-fearing human beings. <\/P><\/p>\n<p><P>As for Wells and Dupuch, you will do well to emulate them; of course it requires a lot of common sense to achieve such a task. <\/P><\/p>\n<p><P>This, Mr Bodie, is a simple case of the pot calling the kettle black. Please quit while you are ahead. <\/P><\/p>\n<p><P>Yours, etc. <\/P><\/p>\n<p><P>E W I WATKINS, J.P.<BR><br \/>\nLetter To The Editor<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A response to &#8220;Thiefing has become accepted way of life for Bahamians&#8221;<\/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-239902","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-headlines"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239902","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=239902"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239902\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":241177,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239902\/revisions\/241177"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=239902"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=239902"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=239902"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}