{"id":18467,"date":"2024-12-05T11:52:45","date_gmt":"2024-12-05T11:52:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/moment-bahamas-mp-throws-ceremonial-mace-out-parliament-window\/"},"modified":"2024-12-05T11:52:45","modified_gmt":"2024-12-05T11:52:45","slug":"moment-bahamas-mp-throws-ceremonial-mace-out-parliament-window","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/moment-bahamas-mp-throws-ceremonial-mace-out-parliament-window\/","title":{"rendered":"Moment Bahamas MP throws ceremonial mace out parliament window"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fYAfXe\">A parliamentary session in the Bahamas has been dramatically suspended after an opposition MP threw a ceremonial mace out a window. <!-- --><\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fYAfXe\">Shanendon Cartwright, the deputy leader of the opposition, was restrained by police and officials following the incident. <!-- --><\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fYAfXe\">During the scuffle the deputy speaker was struck and taken to hospital, while a police officer suffered a leg injury, Speaker Patricia Deveaux told parliament. <!-- --><\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fYAfXe\">Local media said the melee was sparked when Ms Deveaux refused to allow Opposition Leader Michael Pintard to address allegations in a US indictment accusing federal police of involvement in drug trafficking. <!-- --><\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fYAfXe\">Throwing a mace out a window has historic significance in the country. <!-- --><\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fYAfXe\">In 1965, the leader of the opposition did the same thing in a push for electoral change, in an event dubbed &#8220;Black Tuesday&#8221;.<!-- --><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/videos\/cvg7xp1v7l3o\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A parliamentary session in the Bahamas has been dramatically suspended after an opposition MP threw a ceremonial mace out a window. Shanendon Cartwright, the deputy leader of the opposition, was restrained by police and officials following the incident. During the scuffle the deputy speaker was struck and taken to hospital, while a police officer suffered [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":18468,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18467","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latin-america"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18467","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18467"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18467\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18469,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18467\/revisions\/18469"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18468"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18467"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18467"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18467"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}