{"id":4072,"date":"2010-11-12T08:35:26","date_gmt":"2010-11-12T13:35:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/?p=4072"},"modified":"2010-11-12T08:35:26","modified_gmt":"2010-11-12T13:35:26","slug":"crusade-to-destroy-off-the-chart-corruption-in-bahamas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2010\/11\/crusade-to-destroy-off-the-chart-corruption-in-bahamas","title":{"rendered":"Crusade To Destroy &#8216;off the chart&#8217; Corruption in Bahamas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Bahamian businessman is leading what he hopes will morph from a one-man crusade into a concerted community effort to combat corruption and force the Government to plug loopholes in its &#8220;inept system&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>The Tribune newspaper recently reported that Egan Kemp, owner of a multi-outlet business employing numerous Bahamians, said that &#8220;astronomical&#8221; revenue losses due to tax evasion were undermining both Bahamian society and the economy by producing unacceptable living costs &#8211; punishing poor Bahamians the most.<\/p>\n<p>Unveiling his attempt to launch PACT (People Against Corruption Together) during an interview with the newspaper, Kemp said his vision was for the organisation to become &#8220;dedicated to finding shortcomings in the Government system of checks and balances, so we can make sure the Government is aware &#8211; and actively looking for &#8211; ways to plug these gaps, whether it exists in law or in the ministries&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Bahamian businessman is leading what he hopes will morph from a one-man crusade into a concerted community effort to combat corruption and force the Government to plug loopholes in its &#8220;inept system&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"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":[3],"tags":[93,40],"class_list":["post-4072","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","tag-corruption","tag-government"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4072","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\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4072"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4072\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4072"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4072"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4072"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}