{"id":34665,"date":"2013-04-19T09:01:22","date_gmt":"2013-04-19T13:01:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/?p=34665"},"modified":"2013-04-19T09:01:22","modified_gmt":"2013-04-19T13:01:22","slug":"hall-criticizes-nottage-over-crime","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2013\/04\/hall-criticizes-nottage-over-crime","title":{"rendered":"Hall Criticizes Nottage Over Crime"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2013\/04\/hall-criticizes-nottage-over-crime-34665.html\/hall\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-34666\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-34666\" title=\"hall\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/hall.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/hall.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/hall-150x112.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/hall-250x187.jpg 250w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a>National Security Minister Dr. Bernard Nottage is being criticized by Bishop Simeon Hall for being vocal about crime while he was in opposition, but failing to deliver now that he is in office.<\/p>\n<p>Hall made these comments in a very timely fashion &#8211; as New Covenant Baptist Church placed the names of murder victims on a memorial wall in front of the church.<\/p>\n<p>Bishop Hall stated that the recent attacks on police officers and the 28 murders for the year are \u201cfrightening indicators\u201d that crime is uncontrollable.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA political party, while in opposition seems to have more to say about crime than when that same party comes to government. Dr Bernard Nottage said more about murder while seeking office than he is saying now as Minister of National Security. All Bahamians remember those graphic signs around town by the PLP decrying the murder rate right before the last election,\u201d he told The Tribune.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe promise to put a major dent in crime has not been delivered \u2013 regardless of what the statistics say. Today\u2019s criminals have sunk to brutish savagery and are not afraid of the law, the police, the court, going to jail or anything anymore.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>National Security Minister Dr. Bernard Nottage is being criticized by Bishop Simeon Hall for being vocal about crime while he was in opposition, but failing to deliver now that he is in office. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"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":[],"class_list":["post-34665","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-headlines"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34665","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34665"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34665\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34665"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34665"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34665"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}