{"id":24638,"date":"2012-08-14T08:41:19","date_gmt":"2012-08-14T12:41:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/?p=24638"},"modified":"2012-08-14T08:41:19","modified_gmt":"2012-08-14T12:41:19","slug":"turks-and-caicos-passes-election-reform-laws","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2012\/08\/turks-and-caicos-passes-election-reform-laws","title":{"rendered":"Turks and Caicos Passes Election Reform Laws"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_24643\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-24643\" style=\"width: 160px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-24643 \" title=\"ric-todd\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/ric-todd.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"160\" height=\"214\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/ric-todd.jpg 160w, https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/ric-todd-112x150.jpg 112w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 160px) 100vw, 160px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-24643\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Governor Ric Todd<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Turks and Caicos Islands  Governor Ric Todd has signalled another key milestone on the route to  the resumption of elections in the Turks and Caicos Islands (TCI) on 9  November by signing into law the Political Activities Ordinance, which  comes into effect on August 28, 2012.<\/p>\n<p>The ordinance is the result of much work, and is a first in the  Caribbean region. It comes at the culmination of full and careful  consultation, including with the two political parties. The ordinance  sets out clearly how parties finance themselves and account for the  money they raise; who can donate and the amounts; and controls how the  parties spend the money raised in their election campaigning.<\/p>\n<p>Todd commented: \u201cThis ordinance marks a big step in making TCI politics  open and transparent, and it will be key in avoiding the abuses that  occurred in the past. I am sure it will be widely welcomed. TCI is  leading the way in the region.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #888888;\"><em><strong>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.caribbeannewsnow.com\" target=\"_blank\">Caribbean News Now!<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Turks &#038; Caicos Islands have passed an election and campaign reform law that will help make the political process more transparent, something The Bahamas sorely needs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","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":[5],"tags":[93,126,74,60,168],"class_list":["post-24638","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-corruption","tag-elections","tag-fnm","tag-plp","tag-politics-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24638","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\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24638"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24638\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24638"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24638"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24638"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}