{"id":23876,"date":"2012-07-20T09:14:18","date_gmt":"2012-07-20T13:14:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/?p=23876"},"modified":"2012-07-20T09:19:23","modified_gmt":"2012-07-20T13:19:23","slug":"ingrahams-resignation-delayed-through-august","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2012\/07\/ingrahams-resignation-delayed-through-august","title":{"rendered":"Ingraham&#8217;s Resignation Delayed Through August"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_19298\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-19298\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-19298\" title=\"hubert-ingraham-s\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/hubert-ingraham-s.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/hubert-ingraham-s.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/hubert-ingraham-s-150x112.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/hubert-ingraham-s-250x187.jpg 250w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-19298\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Prime Minister Hubert Ingraham<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Ingraham had previously said he would resign effective Thursday, July 19, the anniversary of his first election to the House in 1977.<\/p>\n<p>But The Guardian has learnt that while he will hand in his resignation letter this morning, that resignation will not take effect until the end of August.<\/p>\n<p>A delay in his resignation would allow Greg Gomez \u2014 the Free National Movement\u2019s preferred pick to run in the North Abaco by-election \u2014 to sort out his residency issue.<\/p>\n<p>On Sunday, FNM Leader Dr. Hubert Minnis confirmed that Gomez does not yet meet the constitutional requirement to run for public office.<\/p>\n<p>Gomez lived in the United States up until August 2011, according to Minnis.<\/p>\n<p>According to the constitution, a person who is eligible to be elected to the House of Assembly must have been an ordinary resident of The Bahamas \u201cfor a period of not less than one year immediately before the date of his nomination for election\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>The delayed resignation could provide Ingraham an opportunity to attend Parliament again and even make a farewell address as former Prime Minister the late Sir Lynden Pindling did in 1997.<\/p>\n<p>The delayed resignation could also impact Prime Minister Perry Christie\u2019s plan to hold a referendum on gambling before the end of the year.<\/p>\n<p>Christie said recently that the timing of that referendum will be impacted by Ingraham\u2019s resignation because a by-election would take priority over the referendum.<\/p>\n<p>Ingraham served for 19 nonconsecutive years as leader, the longest term in the history of the FNM.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former prime minister Hubert Ingraham has handed in his resignation although it will not take effect until the end of August.<\/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":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23876","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-headlines"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23876","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=23876"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23876\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23876"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23876"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23876"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}