{"id":54217,"date":"2014-03-18T09:35:57","date_gmt":"2014-03-18T13:35:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/target\/country-headed-for-wild-west-says-bishop"},"modified":"2014-03-18T09:35:57","modified_gmt":"2014-03-18T13:35:57","slug":"bishop-country-headed-for-wild-west","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2014\/03\/bishop-country-headed-for-wild-west","title":{"rendered":"Bishop: Country Headed For Wild West"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-31434\" alt=\"crime\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/crime.jpg\" width=\"200\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/crime.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/crime-150x112.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/>National Overseer of the Church of God of Prophecy Bishop Franklin Ferguson warned yesterday that the country is in danger of becoming the \u201cWild, Wild West\u201d if the crime rate continues to increase.<\/p>\n<p>Bishop Ferguson\u2019s comments came as he delivered the national address at the closing of the Church of God of Prophecy\u2019s 2014 Conclave at the Church of God Tabernacle on East Street.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere is no question that crime in this country is beyond the level of acceptability,\u201d he said. \u201cIt is indeed ruining the lives of many and is threatening the life blood of our national economy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Bishop Ferguson applauded the efforts of the government and the Ministry of National Security in fighting crime but he reminded that there is no excuse for not getting the job done.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou have been elected and are being paid to do what you said you have the ability to do,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p id=\"mct-ai-attriblink\"><a href=\"http:\/\/jonesbahamas.com\/country-headed-for-wild-west-says-bishop\/\" target=\"_blank\">Click here to read the complete article at jonesbahamas.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>National Overseer of the Church of God of Prophecy Bishop Franklin Ferguson warned yesterday that the country is in danger of becoming the \u201cWild, Wild West\u201d if the crime rate continues to increase.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":31434,"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":[31,163],"class_list":["post-54217","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-headlines","tag-crime","tag-society"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54217","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=54217"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54217\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31434"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54217"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54217"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}