Nassau, Bahamas – The Bamboo Town Constituency Association of the Free National Movement and FNMs in Bamboo Town, wish to express our considerable personal and collective disappointment over the resignation of Mr. Branville McCartney from the FNM and the abrupt manner in which it was done.<\/p>\n
Mr. McCartney did not inform the Executives of the Bamboo Town Association prior to his decision.\u00a0 We learned of his decision at the same time it was made public.\u00a0\u00a0 Having worked for his election to the House of Assembly and on his behalf in Bamboo Town, we would have expected the basic courtesy of prior notification and consultation.<\/p>\n
Mr. McCartney had numerous opportunities to inform the Association leadership of his decision, even as recently as last Thursday night, when two of our Executives met with him.\u00a0 He could have telephoned our Association Chairman immediately prior to his resignation.<\/p>\n
Many in Bamboo Town still do not understand his abrupt resignation from the Cabinet and now his resignation from the FNM.\u00a0 The philosophy, manifesto, policies and leadership of the FNM have not changed since Mr. McCartney was elected to the House of Assembly as an FNM, and joined Mr. Ingraham\u2019s Cabinet.<\/p>\n
It is our view that the majority of FNMs in Bamboo Town as well as the majority of residents in our great constituency support the Government\u2019s creation of a new partnership between BTC and Cable & Wireless to create a cutting-edge telecommunications company that will move The Bahamas forward.<\/p>\n
In the end he did not vote.\u00a0 We are stunned that when the big vote came Mr. McCartney seemed more concerned about his own personal decision than the broader needs of the people of The Bahamas.<\/p>\n
We will continue to work for the new and better direction the country is moving in under the leadership of Prime Minister Ingraham and the Free National Movement.<\/p>\n
The Bamboo Town Constituency Association is proud of the work our party has done under Prime Minister Ingraham\u2019s leadership during the worldwide economic downturn.<\/p>\n
We pledge ourselves to ensuring that in the next general election Bamboo Town remains FNM country.\u00a0 Thank You.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Mr McCartney was elected and is paid to represent Bamboo Town constituents. Yet when it was time to vote on the BTC sale, one of the most important votes in recent Bahamian history, McCartney didn’t vote at all.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"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":[36,155],"class_list":["post-7244","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-btc","tag-voting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7244","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\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7244"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7244\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7244"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7244"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7244"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}