Wednesday, December 4, 2024
SHANENDON Cartwright, the MP for St Barnabas, seized the mace in the House of Assembly and threw it from the window during a session this morning.
The Speaker of the House then ordered the removal of the MP from the House - but as officers attempted to do so, members of the Opposition linked arms in an effort to prevent his removal.
Officers finally ejected the FNM MPs from the Opposition bench - before Parliament resumed without their presence.
The Speaker has resumed the House, saying that she was "in fear for my life". She says she was assaulted, was almost hit, "thank God for a glass of water in front of me". The Deputy Speaker has gone to hospital after being hit in the head, she says, and a police officer was hurt.
Speaker Patricia Deveaux said: "This is a dark day in this political arena that we call politics. For the first time in my life when I took the oath of office, I felt challenged and I was in fear for my life. I will review the tapes and I will apprise the country later of my findings but during today's event I was assaulted, I was hit, thank God for a glass of water in front of me. The honourable deputy speaker was given a blow to the head and has to go to hospital. And we have a police officer with terrible damage to his leg.
"This is Parliament, this is where we come, where we were elected to come to take care of the citizens of this country. This is not a political arena. This is Parliament and this Speaker, I'm strong, I will uphold the rights of the Bahamian people of the Commonwealth of The Bahamas as long as I sit in this chair. I am not a weakling. God is my protector."
FNM MPs were seen to be pulled out of the House and then down the stairs by police officers, before a protest was held outside Parliament.
Comments
Dawes says...
The speaker is terrible. If you want someone to make a situation worse, call on her. How the PM is unable to see this is beyond me. But i guess anything that makes people talk about something other then the US arrests is good news
Posted 4 December 2024, 11:36 a.m. Suggest removal
whatsup says...
AGREED
Posted 4 December 2024, 11:40 a.m. Suggest removal
Porcupine says...
Agreed
Posted 4 December 2024, 6:37 p.m. Suggest removal
truetruebahamian says...
Agreed.
Posted 5 December 2024, 7:39 a.m. Suggest removal
whatsup says...
So a glass of water prevented her from being assaulted??? Must have been a huge glass of water.
Posted 4 December 2024, 11:44 a.m. Suggest removal
moncurcool says...
How a glass of water protects her is amazing, if she is so much in fear of her life.
I thought Moultrie was the worst speaker we ever had, but this woman makes Moultrie look like a genius.
She is the overriding reason I don't even watch what goes on in that ghetto place.
2026 cannot hurry up and arrive.
Posted 4 December 2024, 12:31 p.m. Suggest removal
truetruebahamian says...
Absolutely!
Posted 5 December 2024, 7:39 a.m. Suggest removal
buddah17 says...
Was thinking the same thing
Posted 5 December 2024, 6:47 a.m. Suggest removal
DonAnthony says...
We need a general election. The Bahamian people no longer have confidence in this government or the police force.
Posted 4 December 2024, 11:55 a.m. Suggest removal
K4C says...
Yep time to change a dollar for 4 quarters again
Posted 4 December 2024, 1:35 p.m. Suggest removal
quavaduff says...
That's a good one ...LOL
Posted 4 December 2024, 7:28 p.m. Suggest removal
birdiestrachan says...
Cartwright and pintard are not PLP and they are not Sir Lynden Pindling or sir Milo Butler. They were putting on a bad show shame on them they cannot wear sir Lynden Or Mr Butlers old shoes shame on them . Power at any cost is who they are
Posted 4 December 2024, 11:55 a.m. Suggest removal
bahamianson says...
really? I would not say all that , now. This is not to say good or bad of the former , either.
Posted 4 December 2024, 12:08 p.m. Suggest removal
truetruebahamian says...
Honestly birdiestrachan you are a donkeys rump. Your stupidity only amplifies the low brain connection with the plp, you and Antoine. But he is marginally better.
Posted 4 December 2024, 5:59 p.m. Suggest removal
realfreethinker says...
They need to get a crane and throw the speaker out of the HOA. Worst speaker ever
Posted 4 December 2024, 1:03 p.m. Suggest removal
yari says...
Amen!
Posted 4 December 2024, 2:37 p.m. Suggest removal
TalRussell says...
**Don't you miss his old shoes?** -- Aren't you praying, -- Loretta thought have held on to something so important as her late Grandfather's shoes that gave Comrade Milo B. Butler -- The bounce needed on April 27th, 1965 Black Tuesday -- When he **as the lion** amongst MPs' in the House of Assembly (HOA) -- Wasn't afraid to roar on behalf the colony's disenfranchised popoulaces majority -- As he successfully leaped clear across the HOA floor towards an opened window to threw the UBP Speaker’s mace clear out the window of the UBPs' House of Assembly. -- Yes?
Posted 4 December 2024, 1:10 p.m. Suggest removal
birdiestrachan says...
PINTARD CALLED FOR THIS PROTEST. DID HE HAVE A HUGE CROWD. THE SPEAKER TOLD HIM TO WAIT HIS TURN BUT THE LITTLE RUDE SCHOOL BOYS COULD NOT HELP THEMSELVES SO THEY SHOULD THEIR EMBRASSING .SELVES
Posted 4 December 2024, 1:15 p.m. Suggest removal
birdiestrachan says...
What fool can say he had a right to break that window only a fool will agree with that and there are many
Posted 4 December 2024, 1:17 p.m. Suggest removal
truetruebahamian says...
Idiot
Posted 4 December 2024, 6:23 p.m. Suggest removal
Porcupine says...
birdie,
I agree you are an idiot.
Go back to grade school.
Posted 4 December 2024, 6:38 p.m. Suggest removal
bcitizen says...
Even if you have a problem with the government. You might as well burn the Bahamian flag if you throw the mace out the window.
Posted 4 December 2024, 2:10 p.m. Suggest removal
Sickened says...
Shouldn't it be the PLP's that are getting locked up?
The world is upside down.
Posted 4 December 2024, 2:24 p.m. Suggest removal
TalRussell says...
**Political what-ifs!** -- The timing of Mace toss may just make good sense of who the 'likely suspect' will be the "politician" the premiership may have been on verge of naming. --- But got distracted. -- Considering, no 'politician' has yet, -- been cleared. -- Yes?
Posted 4 December 2024, 2:27 p.m. Suggest removal
yari says...
So was she hit or not? She says both. In any case this whole situation was caused by the speaker and her partisan behaviour.
Posted 4 December 2024, 2:40 p.m. Suggest removal
whatsup says...
I saw the actual video on Instagram....she never even flinched. She did not look fearful of her life to me, I think I heard her say "Get Him" She is making this very dramatic.
Posted 4 December 2024, 2:54 p.m. Suggest removal
moncurcool says...
So true. She didn't budge when it happened.
The Speaker is a liar.
Posted 4 December 2024, 7:16 p.m. Suggest removal
whatsup says...
I wish Politicians would leave God out of their mouths.
Posted 4 December 2024, 3 p.m. Suggest removal
birdiestrachan says...
Do the FNMs know what they did is call violence. Breaking glass windows that do not belong to you is a crime. The time for that is passed there was a time when the majority voice was silenced Pintard would have been allowed to speak . When it was his turn he speaks a lot he arise for many points of order. Check this out compare the PLP members to the FNM members in both houses the PLP outshine them for every time intectually sound the PLP are take that to the bank it is worth lots of money
Posted 4 December 2024, 3:09 p.m. Suggest removal
ThisIsOurs says...
I just mentioned the mace toss 2 or 3 days ago in response to Licoln Bain's antics.
My assessment at that time was basically that Bain was no Linding Pindling and is all about drama and youtube content generation.
I do not like what the govt is doing in attempting to silence the opposition, it is distasteful to the extreme. I've also said I want to hear the FNM say that they will allow the opposition to have a voice.
I dont know if this drastic of an action was required but I am happy that the govt side was not able to continue with their undemocratic action. My question is whether going forward we will see the mace out the window at least once every five years...
Posted 4 December 2024, 3:14 p.m. Suggest removal
TalRussell says...
**There is no disguise which can hide how** -- Shanendon Cartwright -- Rattled the Comrade "Sister" Speaker's -- position of authority. -- Noticed the sudden look that took over the face of the member for Montagu's security minister. -- Might've been the ghost of Milo Butler returning to the floor of the honourable House of Assembly. --Yes?
Posted 4 December 2024, 4:03 p.m. Suggest removal
truetruebahamian says...
They deserve whatever they reap. The plp today is not a credible entity, that’s why I left them because of ping and Christie and changed in favour of the fnm, which I left because of that twit Minnis. Now I will join the fnm once more under a sane leader, Pintard.
Posted 4 December 2024, 5:55 p.m. Suggest removal
Porcupine says...
Speaker Deveaux is a disgrace to this nation.
But, I can see why Davis wants her around.
Still wondering who this public official is.
Something tells me it will get worse, to the point of embarrassing.
Jokey Leaders keep on keeping on.
Davis should resign before he is indicted.
But, maybe that's the point.
Posted 4 December 2024, 6:42 p.m. Suggest removal
BONEFISH says...
Political theater. Both parties play the same game while in opposition, The current speaker like the previous speaker under the Minnis administration is unsuited for the job. That is the problem we have here in the Bahamas under this bastardized version of the Westminster system.
Posted 4 December 2024, 8:04 p.m. Suggest removal
trueBahamian says...
This lady dramatic. Somebody nominated her for an Oscar for this performance. Let's hope we don't have to pay for a replacement for that mace. Lol. The Davis administration needs to resign. Too much stuff going on under their governance, voice notes, this latest scandal in the US, the Financial Secretary challenging a reporter to a fight outside the OPM and arithmetricks with the country's finances to just name a few. Let's hope Mr. Pintard is ready to lead. Interestingly enough it was Shanendon who threw the mace and not Pintard. He needs to step up. That statement isn't an agreement with Lincoln "waste of time" Bain.
Posted 4 December 2024, 11:39 p.m. Suggest removal
TalRussell says...
Yes, it's right there in:--- Second Corinthians 12:9 says that through God's grace and power can help any member popoulace to overcome false memories situations. -- Yes?
Posted 5 December 2024, 2:05 a.m. Suggest removal
DiverBelow says...
Is this South Korea?
Posted 5 December 2024, 9:01 a.m. Suggest removal
birdiestrachan says...
The speaker of the house is a good strong woman. Bottom line. What did cartwright tell his children
Posted 5 December 2024, 8:30 p.m. Suggest removal
TalRussell says...
A video of the Wednesday's HOA proceedings @ 27:27 **clearly shows** the opposition's Adrian White MP for St. Annes, -- Standing up and walking over to the window **but moments before** -- Shanendon Cartwright, hurled the Speaker’s Mace out of the same window. -- Did Adrian assist **by opening the window?** -- The opposition has adamantly denied** it was preplanned. -- Yes?
Posted 6 December 2024, 1:21 a.m. Suggest removal
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