{"id":243933,"date":"2003-08-27T18:59:49","date_gmt":"2003-08-27T22:59:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2003\/08\/council-says-no-to-50-cent"},"modified":"2003-08-27T18:59:49","modified_gmt":"2003-08-27T22:59:49","slug":"council-says-no-to-50-cent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2003\/08\/council-says-no-to-50-cent","title":{"rendered":"Council Says No to 50 Cent"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Christian Council also strongly advocated that the concert be &#8220;aborted,&#8221; said the Council president Bishop Samuel Green.<br \/>\n<P><br \/>\nIn a letter addressed to Immigration Director Vernon Burrows on August 24, Bishop Green and a Public Interest Committee of The Bahamas Christian Council, outlined five key areas of concern. The letter was also sent to Prime Minister Perry Christie, Minister of Labour and Immigration, Vincent Peet and Acting Minister of Labour and Immigration, Shane Gibson.<br \/>\n<P><a href=https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/webawards\/order_tickets.htm><img src=https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/webawards\/images\/tickets.jpg width=179 height=259 border=0 vspace=3 align=right><\/a><br \/>\nMembers of the Council&#8217;s Public Interest Committee include Bishop Ross Davis, Rev. Daniel Small, Rev. Dr. Delton Fernander and Overseer E. Randy Fraser.<br \/>\n<P><br \/>\nBishop Green said the timing of the concert will be detrimental to the opening of the school.<br \/>\n<P><br \/>\nOn Monday, a government source told The Tribune that the concert will go on as planned but the government is drafting &#8220;strict conditions&#8221; on the performance.<br \/>\n<P><br \/>\nSaid Bishop Green in the letter, headed, &#8220;The negative social impact on the community&#8221;;<br \/>\n<P><br \/>\n&#8220;We have been trying to quell gang activity in our Bahamas for some time and this event will not help in this regard.&#8221;<br \/>\n<P><br \/>\nBishop Green said that as for the &#8220;negative moral impact&#8221;, the review of his material confirms taht he is a &#8220;pimp&#8221; and that he degrades women with lewd suggestions.<br \/>\n<P><br \/>\nHe said this will cause young men to regard women as property and not valued as human beings.<br \/>\n<P><B><br \/>\nSource: The Tribune<\/B><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Bahamas Christian Council has unanimously opposed the 50 Cent concert, scheduled for September 6th.<\/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-243933","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-headlines"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243933","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=243933"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243933\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=243933"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=243933"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=243933"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}