{"id":239657,"date":"2002-09-30T11:42:59","date_gmt":"2002-09-30T15:42:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/?p=239657"},"modified":"2021-02-14T09:00:53","modified_gmt":"2021-02-14T14:00:53","slug":"no-justification-for-stubbs-says-jones","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2002\/09\/no-justification-for-stubbs-says-jones","title":{"rendered":"No Justification For Stubbs Says Jones"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Prime Minister Perry Christie is &quot;dead wrong&quot; for keeping Holy Cross MP, Sydney Stubbs as chairman of BAIC, said Wendal Jones CEO of Jones Communications during his radio show, &quot;Jones and Company&quot;, yesterday.<P><\/p>\n<p>Mr. Jones said there was no justification for Mr. Stubbs to be in his position at BAIC today. He chastised the media for &quot;dropping&quot; the story.<P><\/p>\n<p>FNM leaders called for the resignation of Mr. Stubbs who they allege fired BAIC employees because they were affiliated with the FNM.<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Stubbs, through a series of strongly worded letters, described the corporation&#39;s former general manager, Geoffrey Stuart, as a &quot;festering sore on the back of the corporation.&quot;<P><\/p>\n<p>&quot;There is absolutely no justification in this world for Sydney Stubbs to be in his position at BAIC today. Prime Minister Christie is dead wrong in confirming that position,&quot; Mr. Jones said.<P><\/p>\n<p>Last week reports circulated that the controversial chairman was confirmed in his position in the corporation.<P><\/p>\n<p>Leader of the FNM party, Tommy Turnquest has called these reports a &quot;slap in the face.&quot;<P><\/p>\n<p>If these reports are true said Mr. turnquest, it is cause for concern as Mr. Stubbs has proven himself to be &quot;unfit&quot; to hold such an office.<P><\/p>\n<p>However, Mr. Jones thinks the media in The Bahamas has dropped the story.<P><\/p>\n<p>Mr. Jones pointed out that the media, since the BAIC controversy has started, has not been able to locate Mr. Stubbs.<P><\/p>\n<p>Mr. Stubbs has refused to speak with the Tribune giving no explanation for the tone of his letters or reasons why the persons were fired from the corporation.<P><\/p>\n<p><P><B>Source: Article by Rupert Missick, The Tribune<\/B><\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Radio show host slams PM<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","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-239657","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-headlines"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239657","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=239657"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239657\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":241419,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239657\/revisions\/241419"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=239657"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=239657"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=239657"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}