{"id":246405,"date":"2005-01-07T11:14:17","date_gmt":"2005-01-07T16:14:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2005\/01\/no-charges-recommended-for-roberts"},"modified":"2005-01-07T11:14:17","modified_gmt":"2005-01-07T16:14:17","slug":"no-charges-recommended-for-roberts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2005\/01\/no-charges-recommended-for-roberts","title":{"rendered":"No Charges Recommended For Roberts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Police Commissioner Paul Farquharson has recommended to Attorney General Alfred  Sears that Works and Utilities Minister Bradley Roberts not be charged with rape.<br \/>\n<P><br \/>\nMr. Sears told The Tribune yesterday, the commissioner, who submitted his recommendations to the Attorney General on Tuesday, said that based on their findings Mr. Roberts should not be prosecuted.<br \/>\n<P><br \/>\n&#8220;I have asked the Director for Public Prosecutions to review the recommendation and he will advise me if the recommendations of the commissioner should be followed,&#8221; Mr. Sears said.<br \/>\n<P><br \/>\nHe said that his office has the final say in the matter, but if evidence does not support a prosecution one is not advanced.<br \/>\n<P><br \/>\nMr. Sears, however, would not comment on the circumstances under which the commissioner recommended that no charges be made against the minister.<br \/>\n<P><br \/>\n<B>Source: Rupert Missick, The Tribune<\/B><\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The police commissioner, who submitted his recommendations to the Attorney General on Tuesday, said that based on their findings Mr. Roberts should not be prosecuted.<\/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-246405","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-headlines"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246405","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=246405"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246405\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=246405"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=246405"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=246405"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}