{"id":6703,"date":"2013-12-16T16:53:36","date_gmt":"2013-12-16T16:53:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forumarchives.tmsites.net\/index.php\/2013\/12\/16\/bermuda-scraps-referendum-on-casino-gambling\/"},"modified":"2013-12-16T16:53:36","modified_gmt":"2013-12-16T16:53:36","slug":"bermuda-scraps-referendum-on-casino-gambling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumarchives.tmsites.net\/index.php\/2013\/12\/16\/bermuda-scraps-referendum-on-casino-gambling\/","title":{"rendered":"Bermuda scraps referendum on casino gambling"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!-- Original Post Content --><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i44.tinypic.com\/2e58u35.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\tHAMILTON, Bermuda (AP) \u2013 The government of Bermuda says it will no longer hold a referendum as promised on whether the island should legalize casinos.<\/p>\n<p>\tPremier Craig Cannonier told reporters Friday that legislators will instead address the issue through an upcoming bill.<\/p>\n<p>\tHe said the government also will launch a public information campaign in upcoming weeks.<\/p>\n<p>\tCannonier said he decided to scrap the referendum amid reports that the opposition party would boycott it. The opposition party has denied those accusations and said it supported holding a referendum.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<h3>Replies:<\/h3>\n<p>No replies were posted for this topic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HAMILTON, Bermuda (AP) \u2013 The government of Bermuda says it will no longer hold a referendum as promised on whether the island should legalize casinos. Premier Craig Cannonier told reporters Friday that legislators will instead address the issue through an&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":36,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6703","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-latest-casino-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumarchives.tmsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6703","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumarchives.tmsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumarchives.tmsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumarchives.tmsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/36"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumarchives.tmsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6703"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumarchives.tmsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6703\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumarchives.tmsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6703"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumarchives.tmsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6703"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumarchives.tmsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6703"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}