{"id":23612,"date":"2012-07-12T09:13:43","date_gmt":"2012-07-12T13:13:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/?p=23612"},"modified":"2012-07-12T09:13:43","modified_gmt":"2012-07-12T13:13:43","slug":"christies-boards-full-of-recycled-politicians","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2012\/07\/christies-boards-full-of-recycled-politicians","title":{"rendered":"Christie&#8217;s Boards &#8216;Full of Recycled Politicians&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_23519\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-23519\" style=\"width: 200px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-23519\" title=\"board-meeting\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/board-meeting.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/board-meeting.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/board-meeting-150x112.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-23519\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">board appointments<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>FNM Chairman Charles Maynard has criticised the government\u2019s recent appointments to the various boards and committees as full of \u201crecycled politicians.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He also questioned the absence of South Andros MP Picewell Forbes in any of the appointments and commented on the appointment of William Thompson as new Chairman of the Broadcasting Corporation of the Bahamas (BCB) \u2014 and by default, ZNS.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe biggest question that jumps out in our mind is where is the new generation of leaders?\u201d Mr Maynard asked. \u201cAs we look at the substantial board and their leadership what we see is a lot of the old guard of the Progressive Liberal Party; a lot of recycled politicians and what we don\u2019t see are any new young Bahamians who could actually perform at the highest level on some of these boards.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The chairman hinted that the new appointments could possibly be based on party loyalty rather than on bringing in new faces.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The new boards have been criticised for being full of &#8220;old guard&#8221; PLP stalwarts and lacking the new young Bahamians who could actually perform at the highest level on some of these boards.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"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":[60,396],"class_list":["post-23612","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-plp","tag-politicians"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23612","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\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23612"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23612\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23612"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23612"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23612"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}