{"id":28588,"date":"2012-11-26T09:56:31","date_gmt":"2012-11-26T14:56:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/?p=28588"},"modified":"2014-03-21T10:02:08","modified_gmt":"2014-03-21T14:02:08","slug":"constitutional-review-of-gambling-and-womens-rights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2012\/11\/constitutional-review-of-gambling-and-womens-rights","title":{"rendered":"Constitutional Review Of Gambling&#8230; and Women&#8217;s Rights?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-28147\" title=\"law-gavel\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/law-gavel.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/law-gavel.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/law-gavel-150x112.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/>The question of allowing Bahamians to gamble in hotel casinos alongside tourists will be considered by the Constitutional Reform Commission.<\/p>\n<p>It comes after Mr Christie confirmed that there had been a widespread backlash by Bahamians after the issue\u2019s exclusion from the original planned referendum on gambling.<\/p>\n<p>The new decision was revealed before Opposition Leader Dr Hubert Minnis appeared before the commission at the Hilton hotel to make suggestions on possible reforms to the Bahamas\u2019 constitution.<\/p>\n<p>Mr McWeeney said the commission will also hold a one day session in January to hear the concerns of religious leaders before consulting the general public.<\/p>\n<p>While the opposition supports the commission during this process, Dr Minnis cautioned them to listen to the voice of Bahamians.<\/p>\n<p>Dr Minnis told the commission his party would fully welcome any changes which support equal rights to Bahamian women and citizenship issues.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In discussing a Constitutional review for casino gambling opposition leader Dr Minnis stated that he would also welcome any changes supporting equal rights for Bahamian women.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":28147,"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":[12],"tags":[137,49,120],"class_list":["post-28588","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-headlines","tag-gambling","tag-law","tag-women"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28588","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=28588"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28588\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28147"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28588"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28588"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28588"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}