{"id":65060,"date":"2014-05-21T10:02:28","date_gmt":"2014-05-21T14:02:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/target\/what-were-they-thinking"},"modified":"2014-05-21T10:02:28","modified_gmt":"2014-05-21T14:02:28","slug":"what-were-they-thinking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2014\/05\/what-were-they-thinking","title":{"rendered":"What Were They Thinking?"},"content":{"rendered":"

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In an act that displayed a great deal of insensitivity and confirmed just how out of touch our political leaders are, Leader of Government Business in the House of Assembly Dr. Bernard Nottage tabled a report of a select committee of Parliament last Wednesday, calling for a review of MPs\u2019 salaries and recommending the construction of a new Parliament \u201cwithin this term\u201d.<\/p>\n

The joint committee also recommended that constituency office allowances be increased from $1,500 a month to $2,500 a month, that travel allowances also be increased and that the government make grants to political parties represented in the House.<\/p>\n

Additionally, they want improved health insurance coverage, to include their families, and want this coverage to continue after their parliamentary \u201cservice\u201d has ended.<\/p>\n

Among other things, the MPs also asked for duty allowances.<\/p>\n

We have long known that the government cannot get out of its own way, making misstep after misstep as it botches various policy initiatives while making bad decisions.<\/p>\n

But for the opposition to go along with this exercise was absolutely incredible.<\/p>\n

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

In an act that displayed a great deal of insensitivity and confirmed just how out of touch our political leaders are, MPs want a raise in pay and a new $50 million building to house their greed and incompetence.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":19856,"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":[93,40,142,396],"class_list":["post-65060","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-headlines","tag-corruption","tag-government","tag-incompetence","tag-politicians"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65060","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\/25"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=65060"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65060\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19856"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65060"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65060"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65060"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}