{"id":30377,"date":"2013-01-16T21:36:59","date_gmt":"2013-01-17T02:36:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/?p=30377"},"modified":"2013-01-16T21:36:59","modified_gmt":"2013-01-17T02:36:59","slug":"christie-makes-excuses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2013\/01\/christie-makes-excuses","title":{"rendered":"Christie Makes Excuses"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-29853\" title=\"christie\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/christie2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/christie2.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/christie2-150x112.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/>To close down every web-shop ahead of the referendum would take great effort and cost taxpayers a lot of money, Prime Minister Perry Christie insisted.<\/p>\n<p>His statement came in response to calls from clergymen and vote \u201cno\u201d campaigners that the government should have shut down all number houses pending the outcome of tallied votes on January 28.<\/p>\n<p>And while proponents of gambling have argued that around 3,000 persons would be left jobless should the \u201cno\u201d vote win, Mr Christie said his administration would have no choice but to fill the employment gap.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI told the church (and) I was very honest with the church,\u201d he said. \u201cI was not going to even try it. As I said before, it would take a lot of effort and a lot of money to try. Whenever that happens,\u00a0 if there is a \u2018no\u2019 vote,\u00a0 and we begin the process, you will see the extent to which that is going to be a very costly affair.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To close down every web-shop before the referendum would be too difficult and costly said Prime Minister Christie: \u201cI was not going to even try it.&#8221;<\/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":[31,137,40,307,569,179],"class_list":["post-30377","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-headlines","tag-crime","tag-gambling","tag-government","tag-illegal","tag-referendum","tag-vote"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30377","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=30377"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30377\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30377"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30377"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30377"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}