{"id":17441,"date":"2012-01-27T09:19:15","date_gmt":"2012-01-27T14:19:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/?p=17441"},"modified":"2012-01-27T09:20:08","modified_gmt":"2012-01-27T14:20:08","slug":"dna-candidate-charged-with-theft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2012\/01\/dna-candidate-charged-with-theft","title":{"rendered":"DNA Candidate Charged With Theft"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_17443\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-17443\" style=\"width: 200px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-17443\" title=\"delano-munroe\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/delano-munroe.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/delano-munroe.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/delano-munroe-150x112.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-17443\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Delano Munroe<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Democratic National Alliance (DNA) candidate for MICAL Delano Munroe is facing a criminal charge, The Nassau Guardian has learned.<\/p>\n<p>Munroe, 35, was charged on October 17 in a magistrate\u2019s court with stealing by reason of employment, police reported.<\/p>\n<p>However, he pleaded not guilty to the charge.<\/p>\n<p>It is alleged Munroe stole $12,891 from the Junior Achievement (JA) program last year when he was a program manager.<\/p>\n<p>Police said Munroe collected funds on behalf of Junior Achievement without authorization.<\/p>\n<p>They said the criminal complaint about the missing money was made in March 2011.<\/p>\n<p>Munroe\u2019s trial is expected to begin on March 12 in Court 6 before Magistrate Carolyn Vogt-Evans.<\/p>\n<p>DNA leader Branville McCartney said he was aware of the charge before Munroe became a candidate.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are aware of that,\u201d McCartney said. \u201cWe are looking into it and we will make a statement once we have looked into it further.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He said the party will determine the future of Munroe\u2019s candidacy pending the investigation and the eventual outcome of the court case.<\/p>\n<p>Asked how the charge would affect the party\u2019s reputation, McCartney said, \u201cThe party still goes on.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThese things happen. It\u2019s nothing detrimental to the party. There could be quite more to it that we will determine in very short order. And quite more in terms of how the allegations came up and the meaning behind the allegations.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAt this stage, he is still a candidate.\u201d McCartney said if Munroe is found guilty he would not be on the DNA\u2019s slate.<\/p>\n<p>Munroe was introduced as the DNA\u2019s candidate for MICAL last week during a street meeting in Kemp Road.<\/p>\n<p>According to the DNA\u2019s website, in September 2000, Munroe was invited by the Government of The Bahamas to join the team at the Ministry of Youth as a youth officer assigned to the Youth Enterprise Department.<\/p>\n<p>The DNA said Munroe was the longest serving program manager for Junior Achievement Bahamas, a position he held for more than 10 years.<\/p>\n<p>Munroe is also an entrepreneur and philanthropist, the DNA claimed. The DNA has lost at least two candidates it announced earlier.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thenassauguardian.com\" target=\"_blank\">The Nassau Guardian<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Democratic National Alliance (DNA) candidate for MICAL Delano Munroe was charged with stealing $12,891 from the Junior Achievement program last year when he was a program manager.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"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":[93,31,182,168],"class_list":["post-17441","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-corruption","tag-crime","tag-dna","tag-politics-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17441","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\/25"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17441"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17441\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17441"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17441"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17441"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}