{"id":22408,"date":"2012-06-06T22:51:23","date_gmt":"2012-06-07T02:51:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/?p=22408"},"modified":"2012-06-06T22:51:23","modified_gmt":"2012-06-07T02:51:23","slug":"no-special-invitation-for-mccartney","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2012\/06\/no-special-invitation-for-mccartney","title":{"rendered":"No Special Invitation For McCartney"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_22409\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-22409\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-22409\" title=\"maynard\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/maynard.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/maynard.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/maynard-150x112.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/maynard-250x187.jpg 250w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-22409\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Charles Maynard. Guardian photo<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>While acknowledging that the Free National Movement (FNM) would welcome Democratic National Alliance (DNA) Leader Branville McCartney back into the party, FNM Chairman Charles Maynard said yesterday no \u201cspecial invitation\u201d will be sent to the former member.<\/p>\n<p>Maynard, who was a guest on \u2018Darold Miller Live\u2019 on Guardian Radio 96.9 FM, sought to clarify what he determined was a \u201cmisleading\u201d headline in Tuesday\u2019s Nassau Guardian which read, \u201cFNM wants McCartney\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Maynard\u2019s admission that the FNM plans to convince McCartney to return to the FNM came during an interview on \u2018The Political View\u2019 television program which aired on Cable 12 last night.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe headline is misleading because it gives the impression that we are on some kind of mission to bring Mr. McCartney back,\u201d he said on \u2018Darold Miller Live\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c&#8230; No special invitation was sent to Mr. McCartney to rejoin the FNM, but a global one to all FNMs who have been disenfranchised for whatever reason over the last few years that it\u2019s time to look at the FNM again and to come back home.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMr. Lloyd asked specifically about Bran McCartney and I said he\u2019s like [anybody] else. Just like we want other FNMs to come home, we want him to come home too if he believes what the FNM stands for. The FNM has a big tent and we want to welcome all and sundry to come back.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>McCartney resigned from the FNM just over a year ago after falling out with Former Prime Minister Hubert Ingraham.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FNM Chairman Charles Maynard clarified that while the party would be interested in having McCartney return to the fold, they will extend no special invitation to him.<\/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":[182,74,168],"class_list":["post-22408","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-dna","tag-fnm","tag-politics-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22408","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=22408"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22408\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22408"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22408"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22408"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}