{"id":27828,"date":"2012-11-08T12:42:19","date_gmt":"2012-11-08T17:42:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/?p=27828"},"modified":"2012-11-08T12:42:19","modified_gmt":"2012-11-08T17:42:19","slug":"bahamian-public-should-not-fund-referendum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2012\/11\/bahamian-public-should-not-fund-referendum","title":{"rendered":"Bahamian Public Should Not Fund Referendum"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_22988\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-22988\" style=\"width: 200px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-22988\" title=\"hubert-minnis\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/hubert-minnis.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/hubert-minnis.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/hubert-minnis-150x112.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-22988\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dr. Hubert Minnis<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Free National Movement (FNM) Leader Dr. Hubert Minnis said the public should not have to pay for an \u201copinion poll\u201d if the upcoming gambling referendum would not bring about a constitutional change, as Prime Minister Perry Christie has asserted.<\/p>\n<p>Christie noted on Monday that the government does not need a referendum to change the law on gambling, but is holding the vote to get public opinion on the issue.<\/p>\n<p>Minnis insisted that if the gambling referendum \u2014 set for December 3 \u2014 is really an opinion poll Bahamian taxpayers should not have to pay for it.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe prime minister&#8230; admitted that it is not a constitutional referendum and I\u2019m sure he\u2019s seeking his legal opinions, [but] if it is not a constitutional referendum then the question I\u2019m sure he is asking all his lawyers and the Office of the Attorney General [is] how are we going to pay for this?\u201d Minnis told The Nassau Guardian.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As the upcoming gambling referendum will not bring about a constitutional change the  public should not have to pay for an \u201copinion poll\u201d said FNM leader Hubert Minnis.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"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":[137,134,569],"class_list":["post-27828","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-gambling","tag-money","tag-referendum"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27828","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\/25"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27828"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27828\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27828"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27828"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27828"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}