{"id":246195,"date":"2004-12-01T11:47:08","date_gmt":"2004-12-01T16:47:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2004\/12\/call-for-ministers-help-in-obtaining-union-presidency"},"modified":"2004-12-01T11:47:08","modified_gmt":"2004-12-01T16:47:08","slug":"call-for-ministers-help-in-obtaining-union-presidency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2004\/12\/call-for-ministers-help-in-obtaining-union-presidency","title":{"rendered":"Call For Minister&#8217;s Help In Obtaining Union Presidency"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ambitious cab-driver Cheryl Fergusin has asked Social Services Minister Melanie Griffin to help her become president of the Bahams Taxicab Union &#8211; by toppling Mrs. Griffin&#8217;s husband, Leon.<br \/>\n<P><br \/>\nMrs. Ferguson, who likens herself to Hillary Clinton and wants to become the Bahamas&#8217; first woman prime minister, makes the extraordinary plea in an open letter saying: &#8220;As sisters, let us show the men how it is done&#8221;.<br \/>\n<P><br \/>\nLast night, Mrs. Ferguson told The Tribune, &#8220;If she is half the woman I think she is, she will talk to him. he knows I will beat him in next year&#8217;s election and he is trying everything in his power to block me&#8221;.<br \/>\n<P><br \/>\nMrs. Ferguson, the union&#8217;s vice-president, was recently questioned by police along with another union official after certain allegations were lodged against her. But she claims this was part of a ploy to discredit her and thwart her bid for the union presidency.<br \/>\n<P><br \/>\n<B>Source: The Tribune<\/B><\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mrs. Ferguson, who likens herself to Hillary Clinton, makes an extraordinary plea in an open letter to Minister Griffin asking for her help in ousting her husband from presidency.<\/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-246195","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-headlines"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246195","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=246195"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246195\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=246195"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=246195"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=246195"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}