{"id":49105,"date":"2014-02-16T12:38:06","date_gmt":"2014-02-16T17:38:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/target\/pm-to-form-committee-to-give-web-shop-advice"},"modified":"2014-02-16T12:41:00","modified_gmt":"2014-02-16T17:41:00","slug":"pm-to-form-another-useless-committee-to-give-web-shop-advice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2014\/02\/pm-to-form-another-useless-committee-to-give-web-shop-advice","title":{"rendered":"PM To Form Another Useless Committee to Give Web Shop Advice"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"christie\"Prime Minister Perry Christie announced he will be forming an economic committee to advise him on how to move forward on the issue of web shop gaming in the Bahamas.<\/p>\n

While remaining tight lipped on whether the government will regulate web shops despite the results of last year\u2019s referendum, Mr Christie said he has been meeting with local pastors and they have had \u201cencouraging conversations\u201d on how gaming can impact the government\u2019s need for additional revenue.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are working on dealing with it (web shop gaming). Sometime in the next few days I am going to appoint a council of economic advisors, who will be selected for their ability\u00a0to analyse and understand the economy, who will be able as a body to advise me. In situations like that I will pass it on to them and they will advise me moving forward,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Click here to read the complete article at www.tribune242.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Scared to legalize web shop gambling on his own, disappointed by the failed referendum, under pressure from pastors, yet compelled to satisfy his financial backers, Perry Christie has decided to appoint another worthless committee to decide for him.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":40470,"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":[93,31,137,40,142,60],"class_list":["post-49105","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-headlines","tag-corruption","tag-crime","tag-gambling","tag-government","tag-incompetence","tag-plp"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49105","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=49105"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49105\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40470"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49105"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}