The vice president, first vice president, a trustee and an executive board member of the Bahamas Taxicab Union were voted out yesterday during an election supervised by the Department of Labour.
According to preliminary results, 71 taxi drivers voted to oust embattled vice president Cheryl Ferguson, who last week pleaded not guilty to charges of conspiracy to steal from the union. Eight union members elected to have her maintain her post of second in command.
Sixty persons elected in favour of the resolution asking for the recall of first vice president Sigmund Bethel, while 12 voted against it. He, too, was arraigned before Magistrate Susan Sylvester with conspiring with Ms. ferguson to steal almost $4,000 from the union.
Source: Felicity Ingraham, The Tribune
