{"id":47057,"date":"2014-01-23T09:06:01","date_gmt":"2014-01-23T14:06:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/target\/putting-bahamians-first-election-slogan-not-reality-of-governance"},"modified":"2014-01-23T09:06:25","modified_gmt":"2014-01-23T14:06:25","slug":"putting-bahamians-first-election-slogan-not-reality-of-governance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2014\/01\/putting-bahamians-first-election-slogan-not-reality-of-governance","title":{"rendered":"Putting Bahamians First: Election Slogan Not Reality of Governance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/target\/putting-bahamians-first-election-slogan-not-reality-of-governance\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/PLP.jpg\" alt=\"Putting Bahamians First: Election slogan not reality of governance\" width=\"384\" height=\"226\" \/><\/a>In 2012, the Progressive Liberal Party (PLP) rose to power once again after voters delivered a wholesale rejection of Hubert Ingraham and the Free National Movement (FNM).<\/p>\n<p>Voters were tired of Ingraham and his style of governance.\u00a0 Many bought into the PLP\u2019s claim that he and the FNM believed more in things than people.<\/p>\n<p>Many believed that when it came to \u201cPutting Bahamians First\u201d, the PLP was the party of choice.<\/p>\n<p>The euphoria of the PLP\u2019s return to office has long faded \u2014 for voters and for those who took control of government.<\/p>\n<p>These days, there is little talk of \u201cPutting Bahamians First\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Empowerment and wealth generation would have to be linked to a more long-term vision for The Bahamas, and that discussion is not taking place.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis whole promise of putting Bahamians first is one that really we bought into, but has fallen flat on its face,\u201d opined Philip Galanis, a former parliamentarian and political commentator.<\/p>\n<p>George Smith, another former PLP MP, added, \u201cWe have to understand how the citizens of The Bahamas translate these commitments because they have gotten to the stage where they just think it\u2019s a bunch of words, a bunch of platitudes that don\u2019t mean anything.\u201d<\/p>\n<p id=\"mct-ai-attriblink\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thenassauguardian.com\/index.php?option=com_content&amp;view=article&amp;id=44594:putting-bahamians-first-election-slogan-not-reality-of-governance&amp;catid=43:national-review&amp;Itemid=37\" target=\"_blank\">Click here to read the complete article at www.thenassauguardian.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Even staunch supporters now admit that the PLP&#8217;s election promise to &#8220;put Bahamians first&#8221; was nothing but a pack of lies to deceive voters.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"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":[93,40,142,264,60],"class_list":["post-47057","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-headlines","tag-corruption","tag-government","tag-incompetence","tag-liars","tag-plp"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47057","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\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47057"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47057\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47057"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47057"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47057"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}