{"id":38136,"date":"2013-08-12T08:30:20","date_gmt":"2013-08-12T12:30:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/?p=38136"},"modified":"2013-08-12T08:53:56","modified_gmt":"2013-08-12T12:53:56","slug":"misspelled-street-renamed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2013\/08\/misspelled-street-renamed","title":{"rendered":"Misspelled Street Renamed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-38142\" title=\"frank-edgecombe\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/frank-edgecombe.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/frank-edgecombe.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/frank-edgecombe-150x112.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/frank-edgecombe-250x187.jpg 250w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Politicians, family and friends gathered to pay tribute to Frank Edgecombe, the former MP for Fox Hill, by renaming the street on which he lives in his honour.<\/p>\n<p>Prime Minister Perry Christie said he saluted Dr Frank Edgecombe not just as someone who successfully represented Fox Hill in politics, but also as someone who has given great service to the teaching profession and his church, helping to shape the lives of hundreds of young children who have become productive citizens of the country.<\/p>\n<p>The Prime Minister was speaking at the street renaming ceremony from Springfield Road to Frank Edgecombe Street, on Thursday. Unfortunately the street sign itself spelt Mr Edgecombe\u2019s name incorrectly.<\/p>\n<p>Dr Edgecombe was among the first group of 30 teachers, who were pioneers of The Bahamas Teachers\u2019 College.<\/p>\n<p>He taught for 26 years and was a founding member of the Primary Principals\u2019 Association.<\/p>\n<p>He was honoured by that body in 1990 in recognition of \u201clong and outstanding service\u201d in the field of Education in The Commonwealth of The Bahamas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A street which had been named in honour of Frank Edgecombe, former MP for Fox Hill, had been spelled wrong and has now been corrected.<\/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":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38136","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38136","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=38136"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38136\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38136"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38136"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}