{"id":12118,"date":"2011-09-22T09:53:03","date_gmt":"2011-09-22T13:53:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/?p=12118"},"modified":"2011-09-22T09:53:03","modified_gmt":"2011-09-22T13:53:03","slug":"edison-key-and-eric-carey-clash-at-abaco-business-outlook","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2011\/09\/edison-key-and-eric-carey-clash-at-abaco-business-outlook","title":{"rendered":"Edison Key and Eric Carey Clash at Abaco Business Outlook"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MP for South Abaco, Edison Key, and BNT Director, Eric Carey, allegedly got into a little &#8216;tiff&#8217; at the Abaco Business Outlook this week in Marsh Harbour, Abaco.<\/p>\n<p>During the Q&amp;A at the event, someone asked Key about the rising cost of electricity on the island. Key replied, &#8220;If it wasn&#8217;t for them environmentalists wanting to get diesel instead of Bunker C, you wouldn\u2019t have these high electricity bills. You got to blame the environmentalists for that one!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Eric Carey, Director of Bahamas National Trust (BNT), took exception to the MP&#8217;s remarks and later told Edison, he was out of line with his response.<\/p>\n<p>Edison in a rage shot back and stated, &#8220;We don&#8217;t need ya&#8217;ll from Nassau coming up here telling us what to do, We built this island,&#8230; I helped built this island.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The row went back and forth for a little for a while leaving onlookers at Outlook in shock at the behaviour of the men.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MP for South Abaco, Edison Key, and BNT Director, Eric Carey, allegedly got into a little &#8216;tiff&#8217; at the Abaco Business Outlook this week in Marsh Harbour, Abaco.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":34,"featured_media":0,"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":[3],"tags":[103,153,76],"class_list":["post-12118","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","tag-abaco","tag-business-2","tag-environment-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12118","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\/34"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12118"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12118\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}