{"id":36570,"date":"2013-06-12T23:14:48","date_gmt":"2013-06-13T03:14:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/?p=36570"},"modified":"2013-06-18T10:18:34","modified_gmt":"2013-06-18T14:18:34","slug":"parliamentary-leadership-gone-to-the-dogs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2013\/06\/parliamentary-leadership-gone-to-the-dogs","title":{"rendered":"Parliamentary Leadership Gone To The Dogs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2013\/06\/parliamentary-leadership-has-gone-to-the-dogs-36570.html\/turner\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-36571\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-36571\" title=\"turner\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/turner.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/turner.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/turner-150x112.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/turner-250x187.jpg 250w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a>So, the Member of Parliament for Long Island \u2013 Mrs. Loretta Butler-Turner, has literally slapped the hurt out of Mr. Andre Rollins, the Member of Parliament for Fort Charlotte &#8211; outside of the House of Assembly today.<\/p>\n<p>The dramatic incident has the town on fire with the question: who\u2019s right and who\u2019s wrong?\u00a0 One thing is certain, and it\u2019s the reality that parliamentary leadership in The Bahamas has gone to the dogs.<\/p>\n<p>I cannot recall a like situation among parliamentarians in my lifetime in The Bahamas, although many have come near to blows in the past.<\/p>\n<p>The violent situation between the two MPs today, is a poignant reflection of the intolerable political frustrations and deep rooted hatred which exist among Bahamians toward Bahamians &#8211; in a so called modern Bahamas.<\/p>\n<p>We will be celebrating our 40th birthday as an autonomous nation on July 10, 2013 &#8211; as black political leadership in The Bahamas turns out to be very disappointing and brutal after four decades of black rule.\u00a0 The situation between the Members of Parliament; Mrs. Butler-Turner and Mr. Andrea Rollins &#8211; has proven it, and it\u2019s nothing to celebrate.<\/p>\n<p>We have a violent culture which runs from the top to the bottom of the Bahamian society. We now know that this is a fact which cannot be denied and ignored anymore by right-thinking Bahamians.<\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #888888;\">By: Dennis Dames<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So, the Member of Parliament for Long Island, Mrs. Loretta Butler-Turner, has literally slapped the hurt out of Mr. Andre Rollins, the Member of Parliament for Fort Charlotte outside of the House of Assembly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"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":[14],"tags":[1164,1106],"class_list":["post-36570","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-opinions","tag-letters-to-the-editor","tag-opinions-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36570","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36570"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36570\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36570"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36570"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36570"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}