{"id":244331,"date":"2003-11-03T12:24:19","date_gmt":"2003-11-03T17:24:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2003\/11\/minister-denies-threatening-omnibus-presidents-livelihood"},"modified":"2003-11-03T12:24:19","modified_gmt":"2003-11-03T17:24:19","slug":"minister-denies-threatening-omnibus-presidents-livelihood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2003\/11\/minister-denies-threatening-omnibus-presidents-livelihood","title":{"rendered":"Minister Denies Threatening Omnibus President&#8217;s Livelihood"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Negotiations over increased bus fees are set to continue this week between the two parties.<br \/>\n<P><br \/>\nMrs. Hanna-Martin took opffence at an article published in Friday&#8217;s edition of The Tribune headlined &#8220;Jitney Drivers Action Could Happen Monday&#8221;<br \/>\n<P><br \/>\nIn the article, Mr. Jacques claimed that Mrs. Hanna-Martin threatened him if his union went ahead with their plans for a massive strike to protest goverment&#8217;s proposed rate increases on their buses.<br \/>\n<P><br \/>\nAccording to Mr. jacques, Mrs. Hanna-Martin told him if he went ahead with the strike that she would be &#8220;gunnun for me personally.&#8221;<br \/>\n<P><br \/>\nHe added that she said, &#8220;I know you are a good musician Mr. Jacques.&#8221;<P><br \/>\nMr. jacques interpreted her comment to mean that the government would pull his contract with the Ministry of Tourism if the union did not withdraw their strike threat.<br \/>\n<P><br \/>\nYesterday, Mrs Hanna-Martin said any suggestion that she threatened Mr. Jacques was not based on fact.<P><br \/>\n<B>Source: The Tribune<\/B><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Transport and Aviation minister Glenys Hanna-Martin has denied that she ever threatened the livelihood of Bahamas Omnibus Association president Nicholas Jaques.<\/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-244331","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-headlines"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244331","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=244331"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244331\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=244331"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=244331"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=244331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}