{"id":40390,"date":"2013-10-02T09:17:04","date_gmt":"2013-10-02T13:17:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/?p=40390"},"modified":"2013-10-02T09:17:05","modified_gmt":"2013-10-02T13:17:05","slug":"carl-bethel-to-replace-bannister-in-senate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2013\/10\/carl-bethel-to-replace-bannister-in-senate","title":{"rendered":"Carl Bethel To Replace Bannister In Senate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2013\/10\/carl-bethel-to-replace-bannister-in-senate-40390.html\/bethel-3\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-40392\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-40392\" title=\"bethel\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/bethel1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/bethel1.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/bethel1-150x112.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a>Carl Bethel has been appointed FNM Senator designate to replace Desmond Bannister, Free National Movement Leader Dr. Hubert Minnis announced.<\/p>\n<p>Bethel will also serve as opposition leader of business in the Senate, said Minnis.<\/p>\n<p>It is believed that the Free National Movement (FNM) was also considering Tommy Turnquest, Brensil Rolle, Alvin Smith or FNM Secretary General Michael Foulkes .<\/p>\n<p>Bethel is a former MP, minister of education, attorney general and chairman of the party. Many members in the party were reportedly leaning toward Bethel. The post became available after Bannister, who was Leader of Opposition Business in the Senate, resigned last month.<\/p>\n<p>In a letter addressed to Minnis, the former minister of education thanked Minnis for appointing him to serve in the Senate.<\/p>\n<p>Bannister\u2019s resignation took effect September 30.<\/p>\n<p>After resigning, Bannister urged party members to stop \u201cundermining\u201d the leadership of the FNM and come together to strengthen the party ahead of the next general election.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe FNM under Dr. Minnis has the opportunity to be the government of The Bahamas in the next election, but the PLP is not necessarily the worst enemy of the FNM in that respect,\u201d Bannister said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe FNM has to pull together to be able to win an election.\u201d Bannister was the second FNM senator to resign since the FNM became the official opposition last year. Former Minister of State for Finance Zhivargo Laing resigned in late 2012.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Carl Bethel has been appointed FNM Senator designate to replace Desmond Bannister, Free National Movement Leader Dr. Hubert Minnis announced. <\/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":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40390","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40390","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=40390"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40390\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40390"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40390"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40390"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}