{"id":30277,"date":"2013-01-15T08:05:43","date_gmt":"2013-01-15T13:05:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/?p=30277"},"modified":"2013-01-15T08:05:43","modified_gmt":"2013-01-15T13:05:43","slug":"christie-ignoring-christian-council-on-lottery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2013\/01\/christie-ignoring-christian-council-on-lottery","title":{"rendered":"Christie Ignoring Christian Council On Lottery"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"The Free National Movement has accused Prime Minister Perry Christie of effectively telling the Christian Council to \u201cdrop dead\u201d over the upcoming gambling vote.<\/p>\n

The opposition said the council\u2019s concerns about the wording of the referendum questions have been ignored, and accused the government of favouring those pushing for a \u201cyes\u201d vote.<\/p>\n

In a statement issued over the weekend, the party said throughout the debate, Prime Minister Christie has pursued a strategy of \u201cconfuse, divide and conquer\u201d.<\/p>\n

They criticised the Prime Minister for not meeting with everyone who has a vested interested in the issue, and failing to give the public time to mull over the questions \u2013 despite promising to do both.<\/p>\n

The FNM said: \u201cAfter promising the Bahamian people that they would be made aware of the questions in ample time before the vote, the PM has failed. In the first instance he was late. The questions came almost three weeks after Mr Christie made that commitment.\u201d<\/p>\n

The party also claimed someone in the government leaked the questions to the leaders of the Vote Yes campaign before anyone else.<\/p>\n

\u201cA leading pastor who is guiding the Vote Yes flock was able to publicly state his satisfaction with the question,\u201d the party said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Free National Movement has accused Prime Minister Perry Christie of effectively telling the Christian Council to \u201cdrop dead\u201d over the upcoming gambling vote.<\/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":[12],"tags":[137,618,179],"class_list":["post-30277","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-headlines","tag-gambling","tag-national-lottery","tag-vote"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30277","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=30277"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30277\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30277"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30277"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30277"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}