{"id":243913,"date":"2003-08-25T19:08:59","date_gmt":"2003-08-25T23:08:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2003\/08\/plp-concerned-over-fnms-allegations-of-corruption"},"modified":"2003-08-25T19:08:59","modified_gmt":"2003-08-25T23:08:59","slug":"plp-concerned-over-fnms-allegations-of-corruption","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2003\/08\/plp-concerned-over-fnms-allegations-of-corruption","title":{"rendered":"PLP Concerned Over FNM&#8217;s Allegations of Corruption"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The PLP were reportedly dismayed to see the former prime minister making a dynamic appearance at a political rally in Freeport.<br \/>\n<P><br \/>\nMr. Ingraham has made it clear to the public that he does not feel the PLP government are doing a good job. He has accused cabinet ministers of falling down on the job, and being slack, arrogant and incompetent.<br \/>\n<P><br \/>\nMr. Ingraham has accused Immigration Minister Vincent Peet of failing to properly deal with corruption in his key department, which is responsible for keeping out illegal immigrants.<br \/>\n<P><br \/>\nThe PLP government has also been labelled by Mr. Ingraham as &#8220;wishy-washy&#8221; in their position on the Caribbean Single Market Economy and job market proposals by CARICOM. These accusations have brought about what appear to be panicked, or ill-judged responses from Prime Minister Perry Christie, Vincent Peet and Foreign Minister Fred Mitchell.<br \/>\n<P><br \/>\nVincent Peet at first refuted that the Immigration Department was riddled with corruption, but then a day later admitted that four immigration officers were being investigated for alleged corruption practices. The Prime Minister continued to deny the claims of corruption despite Mr. Peet&#8217;s admission that there was an investigation. Minister Mitchell made statements indicating that Ingraham should not be making public speeches.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Prime Minister, Hubert Ingraham has stirred concerns amongst the PLP government, that he will make a comeback as the leader of the FNM party in the next election in 2007.<\/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-243913","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-headlines"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243913","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=243913"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243913\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=243913"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=243913"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=243913"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}