{"id":16073,"date":"2011-12-10T12:31:40","date_gmt":"2011-12-10T17:31:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/?p=16073"},"modified":"2011-12-10T12:31:40","modified_gmt":"2011-12-10T17:31:40","slug":"pm-fires-kenneth-russell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2011\/12\/pm-fires-kenneth-russell","title":{"rendered":"PM Fires Kenneth Russell"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_16030\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-16030\" style=\"width: 200px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-16030\" title=\"kenneth-russell\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/kenneth-russell.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/kenneth-russell.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/kenneth-russell-150x112.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-16030\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kenneth Russell<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Kenneth Russell, Minister of Housing and Member of Parliament for High Rock has been relieved of all ministerial responsibilities.<\/p>\n<p>According to party insiders, Mr Russell\u2019s termination is a result of activities inconsistent with his ministerial duties. Allegedly, he discussed Cabinet decisions in the media. Russell challenged his party leader, Prime Minister Hubert Ingraham, saying he would be running in High Rock despite his party\u2019s wishes.<\/p>\n<p>Neko Grant will take over responsibility of the Ministry of Housing in addition to his responsibilities as Minister of Works and Transport.<\/p>\n<p>PLP MP for Fox Hill\u00a0 Fred Mitchell questioned how Mr Russell could remain in the Cabinet after publicly dissenting from a decision of the Cabinet and being chastised in the House of Assembly by the Prime Minister<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kenneth Russell, Minister of Housing and Member of Parliament for High Rock has been relieved of all ministerial responsibilities. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"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":[5],"tags":[74,168],"class_list":["post-16073","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-fnm","tag-politics-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16073","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\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16073"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16073\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16073"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16073"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16073"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}