{"id":12154,"date":"2011-09-22T11:16:04","date_gmt":"2011-09-22T15:16:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/?p=12154"},"modified":"2011-09-22T11:17:25","modified_gmt":"2011-09-22T15:17:25","slug":"cassius-stuart-to-battle-mccartney-in-bamboo-town","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2011\/09\/cassius-stuart-to-battle-mccartney-in-bamboo-town","title":{"rendered":"Cassius Stuart To Battle McCartney in Bamboo Town"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-12155\" style=\"margin-left: 10px; margin-right: 10px;\" title=\"ingraham-stuart\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/ingraham-stuart-250x156.jpg\" alt=\"Hubert Ingraham and Cassius Stuart\" width=\"250\" height=\"156\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/ingraham-stuart-250x156.jpg 250w, https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/ingraham-stuart-150x93.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/ingraham-stuart.jpg 697w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px\" \/>A well-placed member of the FNM party has revealed that Cassius Stuart has been selected as the FNM&#8217;s candidate to challenge DNA leader Branville McCartney for his seat as MP in Bamboo Town.<\/p>\n<p>McCartney was elected as the FNM representative for Bamboo Town but resigned from the party in early 2011 to form his own party, the Democratic National Alliance.<\/p>\n<p>The source allegedly told the Tribune newspaper that although Mr Stuart has not been ratified, the former Bahamas Democratic Alliance (BDA) leader is the &#8220;unofficial&#8221; challenger for the constituency.<\/p>\n<p>Analysts think Mr Stuart will triumph over Mr McCartney because most people in Bamboo Town are &#8220;hard-core&#8221; FNM supporters.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Bamboo Town is not a Branville constituency, it is an FNM constituency and the same way Branville was able to defeat Tennyson Wells because he ran on the FNM&#8217;s ticket (Cassius Stuart will beat him),&#8221; the annonymous FNM source told the paper.<\/p>\n<p>Many in Bamboo Town feel that Mr McCartney abandoned them when he quit the FNM.<\/p>\n<p>Renward Wells, former member of the obscure National Development Party, is the PLP&#8217;s candidate for the area.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Stuart was scheduled to be the keynote speaker at a constituency meeting in Bamboo Town last night.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former BDA leader Cassius Stuart has allegedly been selected as the FNM&#8217;s candidate to challenge DNA leader Branville McCartney for his seat as MP in Bamboo Town.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"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":[12],"tags":[182,174,74,168],"class_list":["post-12154","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-headlines","tag-dna","tag-election","tag-fnm","tag-politics-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12154","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\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12154"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12154\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12154"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12154"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12154"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}