{"id":247756,"date":"2005-09-17T12:30:26","date_gmt":"2005-09-17T16:30:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2005\/09\/is-there-law-and-order-in-the-bahamas"},"modified":"2005-09-17T12:30:26","modified_gmt":"2005-09-17T16:30:26","slug":"is-there-law-and-order-in-the-bahamas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2005\/09\/is-there-law-and-order-in-the-bahamas","title":{"rendered":"Is There Law and Order in The Bahamas?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><P>I must ask: Whether or not there is law and order in The Bahamas having read the lengthy articles in the newspapers over yet again the national lottery?<\/P><\/p>\n<p><P>Not a single word whether the police or whoever is the appropriate law enforcement agency will uphold the law.<\/P><\/p>\n<p><P>Is the silence of the Attorney General &#8211; the Commissioner of Police simply saying that they are totally impotent to adhere to and uphold the law?<\/P><\/p>\n<p><P>Even the Church incredibly argues against lottery but seems unwilling to support the law by<BR><br \/>\ndeclaring that numbers and illegal gambling must be closed down. Their silence indicates the intrusion in the moral backbone and fibre of the Church, I suggest.<\/P><\/p>\n<p><P>If this massive illegal business is just then the law enforcement authorities are bound to obey the law &#8211; if we look the other way on this why not on cocaine, grass and everything else illegal?<\/P><\/p>\n<p><P>Just trying to awaken the stupidity if that will make a difference then God be the glory!<\/P><\/p>\n<p><P><SMALL>EUGENE SIMMONS Nassau,<BR><br \/>\nAugust 30, 2005.<\/SMALL><\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Is the silence of the Attorney General &#8211; the Commissioner of Police simply saying that they are totally impotent to adhere to and uphold the law?<\/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-247756","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-headlines"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247756","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=247756"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247756\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=247756"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=247756"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=247756"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}