{"id":64966,"date":"2014-05-19T11:01:46","date_gmt":"2014-05-19T15:01:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/target\/debate-on-parliamentary-salary-increases-is-healthy"},"modified":"2014-05-19T11:01:46","modified_gmt":"2014-05-19T15:01:46","slug":"national-unity-at-last","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2014\/05\/national-unity-at-last","title":{"rendered":"National Unity at Last"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-49500\" alt=\"bahamian-flag\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/bahamian-flag.jpg\" width=\"200\" height=\"150\" \/>I think this may be the first time I&#8217;ve ever witnessed PLP supporters red-hot mad at the PLP MPs\/leadership, and FNM supporters red-hot mad at the FNM MPs\/leadership all at the same time!<\/p>\n<p>And I mean they aren&#8217;t just mad internally. They are speaking out against both parties on social media and the national airwaves passionately.<\/p>\n<p>This is actually very healthy for our democracy. It shows that some issues can unbelievably transcend our rigid party lines in the interests of national progress.<\/p>\n<p>Dare I say (gasp) we are seeing national unity take center stage and party loyalty take a back seat?<\/p>\n<p>Well it&#8217;s about darn time something caused us to unite. Now let&#8217;s make these politicians work to get our support back \u2014 stop giving away your vote\/support blindly.<\/p>\n<p>Blind party support has created a politician\u2019s paradise in The Bahamas. Let&#8217;s turn this ship around and create a citizen\u2019s paradise. Believe me, the ingredients are there but it starts with we, the Bahamian people.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #888888;\"><strong><em>By: Farrell Goff<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I think this may be the first time I&#8217;ve ever witnessed PLP supporters red-hot mad at the PLP MPs\/leadership, and FNM supporters red-hot mad at the FNM MPs\/leadership all at the same time!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":49500,"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":[93,40,142],"class_list":["post-64966","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-opinions","tag-corruption","tag-government","tag-incompetence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64966","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\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=64966"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64966\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49500"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64966"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64966"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64966"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}