{"id":26569,"date":"2012-10-05T09:26:53","date_gmt":"2012-10-05T13:26:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/?p=26569"},"modified":"2012-10-05T09:28:25","modified_gmt":"2012-10-05T13:28:25","slug":"voters-urged-not-to-get-sidetracked-by-political-folly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2012\/10\/voters-urged-not-to-get-sidetracked-by-political-folly","title":{"rendered":"Voters Urged Not To Get Sidetracked"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_23467\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-23467\" style=\"width: 200px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-23467\" title=\"branville-mccartney\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/branville-mccartney.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/branville-mccartney.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/branville-mccartney-150x112.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-23467\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Branville McCartney<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>DNA leader Branville McCartney is warning Bahamians not to be \u201csidetracked\u201d by any controversy surrounding FNM North Abaco candidate Greg Gomez \u2013 as the problems facing the constituency and the country are far more important.<\/p>\n<p>He said problems such as crime and unemployment should be at the forefront of discussions leading up to the by-election and hit out at the PLP and the FNM for overlooking what he called the big picture.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAt the end of the day, our economy is suffering; we have almost 5,000 people unemployed &#8211; and that\u2019s affecting every island, including Abaco; there\u2019s no economic stability; crime is still out of control; and our education system still is in desperate need of consultation; and immigration \u2013 illegal immigration, especially in Abaco \u2013 these are the issues. These are the problems we\u2019re facing. Not Mr Gomez\u2019 status or Curry being the best man.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Branville McCartney is warning Bahamians not to be \u201csidetracked\u201d by controversy and to focus on the problems facing the constituency and the country, which are far more important.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"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":[59,168],"class_list":["post-26569","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-islands","tag-politics-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26569","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\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26569"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26569\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26569"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26569"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26569"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}