{"id":54136,"date":"2014-03-20T10:13:32","date_gmt":"2014-03-20T14:13:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/target\/government-and-opposition-must-settle-webshop-issue"},"modified":"2014-03-20T10:13:32","modified_gmt":"2014-03-20T14:13:32","slug":"government-and-opposition-must-settle-web-shop-issue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2014\/03\/government-and-opposition-must-settle-web-shop-issue","title":{"rendered":"Government and Opposition Must Settle Web Shop Issue"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_23663\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-23663\" style=\"width: 200px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-23663\" alt=\"Referendum on gambling\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/gambling-referendum.jpg\" width=\"200\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/gambling-referendum.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/gambling-referendum-150x112.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-23663\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Referendum on gambling<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"permalinkable\">On January 30 last year \u2014 two days after less than half the voting public said \u201cno\u201d to the legalisation of webshops\u2014 The Tribune\u2019s headline read: \u201cPM: Webshops must close now.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"permalinkable\">\u201cIn keeping with my Government\u2019s commitment to abide by the will of the electorate as expressed on Monday\u2019s referendum,\u201d said Prime Minister Christie, \u201cit has now become necessary to effect the closure of all webshop gaming operations in The Bahamas.<\/p>\n<p class=\"permalinkable\">\u201cAccordingly, all offending webshop owners and operators are placed on notice that all their gaming operations, including all online gaming and the numbers games, must cease with immediate effect. Failure to do so will leave all such webshop owners, operators and webshop gaming patrons exposed to arrest and criminal prosecution without further notice or warning,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"permalinkable\">Police Commissioner Ellison Greenslade followed the PM\u2019s lead with a statement that his forces were \u201cmounting an operation\u201d to close the gambling dens. In the meantime, webshop owners went to the Supreme Court for a declaration that their operations were not regulated by the Lotteries and Gaming Act and, therefore, should be allowed to continue in business.<\/p>\n<p class=\"permalinkable\">In just over a year, government legislators have woven such a tangled web that we shall leave it to them to extricate themselves from their many contradictions.<\/p>\n<p class=\"permalinkable\" id=\"h53516-p19\">We now have an illegal system making unbelievable amounts of money that local banks refuse to accept. Already, tremendous mischief is afoot.<\/p>\n<p id=\"mct-ai-attriblink\"><a href=\"http:\/\/tribune242.com\/news\/2014\/mar\/17\/government-and-opposition-must-settle-webshop\/\" target=\"_blank\">Click here to read the complete article at tribune242.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shortly after the &#8216;referendum&#8217; on gambling both the Prime  Minister and the Police Commissioner indicated that web shops would be closed, in accordance to the wishes of the people.  What happened? <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":23663,"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":[14],"tags":[93,137,40,142,60],"class_list":["post-54136","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-opinions","tag-corruption","tag-gambling","tag-government","tag-incompetence","tag-plp"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54136","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=54136"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54136\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23663"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54136"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54136"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}