{"id":40469,"date":"2013-10-02T23:03:53","date_gmt":"2013-10-03T03:03:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/?p=40469"},"modified":"2013-10-02T23:03:53","modified_gmt":"2013-10-03T03:03:53","slug":"november-referendum-postponed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2013\/10\/november-referendum-postponed","title":{"rendered":"November Referendum Postponed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2013\/10\/november-referendum-postponed-40469.html\/christie-14\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-40470\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-40470\" title=\"christie\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/christie.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/christie.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/christie-150x112.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/christie-250x187.jpg 250w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a>Prime Minister Perry Christie announced in the House of Assembly that the first in what is expected to be a series of constitutional referenda during this term will take place no later than June 2014.<\/p>\n<p>The referendum was originally planned for next month, but Christie admitted that date was not practical at this time.<\/p>\n<p>The prime minister said the referendum will address giving women equal rights as men under the constitution.<\/p>\n<p>He said that legislation will be introduced in the House before the end of the year; passed in both houses of Parliament no later than February 2014, and put to a public poll no later than June.<\/p>\n<p>Christie said the legislation will seek to render gender neutral the terms regarding Bahamians&#8217; ability to transfer citizenship and ban discrimination based on sex.<\/p>\n<p>To that end, he said, the government will be implementing recommendations 9, 10, 11, 16, 24 and 25 of the McWeeney Commission&#8217;s report on constitutional change that was made public in July.<br \/>\nThe last constitutional referendum, which was held in 2002, failed at the polls after getting bi-partisan support in Parliament.<\/p>\n<p>Christie said he believes the issues in the referendum planned for next year have the best chance of getting widespread public support.<\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #888888;\">By: Juan McCartney<\/span><\/em><br \/>\n<em><span style=\"color: #888888;\">Guardian Broadcast<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prime Minister Perry Christie announced in the House of Assembly that the first in what is expected to be a series of constitutional referenda during this term will take place no later than June 2014.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"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-40469","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40469","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\/25"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40469"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40469\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40469"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40469"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40469"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}