{"id":33718,"date":"2013-03-29T19:24:01","date_gmt":"2013-03-29T23:24:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/?p=33718"},"modified":"2013-03-29T19:24:01","modified_gmt":"2013-03-29T23:24:01","slug":"fired-btc-ceo-appointed-as-board-director","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2013\/03\/fired-btc-ceo-appointed-as-board-director","title":{"rendered":"Fired BTC CEO Appointed As Board Director"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-29845\" title=\"btc-lime\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/btc-lime.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/btc-lime.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/btc-lime-150x112.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/>Axed Bahamas Telecommunications Company CEO Leon Williams has been appointed as a BTC board director for the government, Prime Minister Perry Christie said.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Williams has been in the position for the past month despite some opposition to the decision, Mr Christie said.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Williams was fired as BTC\u2019s chief executive in 2008. A short time later, he filed suit against the company. Both parties reached a settlement in 2011.<\/p>\n<p>Williams is also a member of the government\u2019s \u2018take back\u2019 negotiation team led by Franklin Wilson.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Axed Bahamas Telecommunications Company CEO Leon Williams has been appointed as a BTC board director for the government.<\/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":[3],"tags":[36],"class_list":["post-33718","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","tag-btc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33718","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=33718"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33718\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33718"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33718"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33718"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}