{"id":30819,"date":"2011-03-22T07:34:47","date_gmt":"2011-03-22T11:34:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dominicanewsonline.com\/dno\/?p=30819"},"modified":"2011-03-22T07:34:47","modified_gmt":"2011-03-22T11:34:47","slug":"protesters-return-in-bahamas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dominicanewsonline.com\/news\/homepage\/news\/regional\/protesters-return-in-bahamas\/","title":{"rendered":"Protesters return in Bahamas"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_30820\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-30820\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-30820\" title=\"bahamas protest\" src=\"http:\/\/dominicanewsonline.com\/dno\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/bahamas-protest-300x199.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dominicanewsonline.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/bahamas-protest-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/dominicanewsonline.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/bahamas-protest-150x99.jpg 150w, https:\/\/dominicanewsonline.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/bahamas-protest.jpg 404w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-30820\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Police keep BTC protesters at bay. (Photo: Nassau Guardian)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>NASSAU, Bahamas &#8212; Opponents of  the Bahamas Telecommunications Company (BTC) sale took to the streets  of Nassau again on Monday to protest the government\u2019s decision, as the  debate over the matter began in Parliament.<\/p>\n<p>The protesters, many displaying their political affiliations on  t-shirts, marched on Bay Street with signs, Bahamian flags and several  bull horns, shouting and singing.<\/p>\n<p>One of the first songs the protesters sang when they approached Rawson Square was The Bahamas\u2019 national anthem.<\/p>\n<p>Their signs were mostly anti-Free National Movement (FNM), some with  slogans like \u201cFire Ingraham\u201d and \u201cStop the world and let the FNM off,\u201d  while others decried the sale of BTC to Cable and Wireless  Communications\/LIME (CWC) with jeers such as \u201cEpic Fail\u201d and  \u201cPoliticians vote for Lime: You\u2019re Fired.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>One sign even called for the Utilities Regulation and Competition Authority (URCA) to be done away with.<\/p>\n<p>Demonstrators could not overrun police barricades to enter Rawson Square  this time, as the barricades were chained together. The crowd was  smaller than the last group to demonstrate against the sale in February.<\/p>\n<p>On Monday, the demonstrators succeeded in opening the barricades on  Parliament Street and for a few minutes several protesters poured  through the opening that was created.<\/p>\n<p>Police quickly replaced the barriers and calmed the crowd.<\/p>\n<p>During the last protest on Bay Street, police were forced to beat some  of the protesters with batons as they pushed barricades aside.<\/p>\n<p>Police were out in full force on Monday, though not in the numbers  present at prior protests, suggesting they were convinced that their  reinforced barricades would hold back the line of protesters.<\/p>\n<p>As ministers left the House of Assembly they were booed by several protesters.<\/p>\n<p>When Prime Minister Hubert Ingraham left the House the crowd began a cacophony of boos and jeers.<\/p>\n<p>As Ingraham walked over to the Churchill Building surrounded by police  officers, some protesters attempted to follow him, shouting at him as  they ran across Rawson Square.<\/p>\n<p>Bamboo Town MP Branville McCartney, who resigned from the Free National  Movement on Sunday, received a warm welcome from the crowd, however.<\/p>\n<p>During much of the protest, president of the Bahamas Communications and  Public Officers Union (BCPOU) Bernard Evans was in court where an appeal  against a decision of the Supreme Court regarding the privatization of  BTC was being heard.<\/p>\n<p>The unions are seeking to block the sale through court action.<\/p>\n<p>However, Bahamas Communications and Public Managers Union (BCPMU) president William Carrol stood with his fellow BTC workers<\/p>\n<p>Other union leaders joined in the protest, including president of the  National Congress of Trade Unions of the Bahamas Jennifer Isaacs Dotson<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have quite a number of affiliated unions under the NCTUB to support the Committee to Save BTC,\u201d Isaacs-Dotson said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhatever we do we need to combine our efforts. There is no sense in us  separating our efforts to try to get the government to change [its] mind  in selling BTC, so we\u2019re all here together and working together in  collaboration to still say to the government, stop, review and cancel  this decision to sell,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>The unions maintain that they will not relent until the government  changes its position on the sale of BTC and will continue to march on  Parliament until the sale of BTC to CWC is dead.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NASSAU, Bahamas &#8212; Opponents of the Bahamas Telecommunications Company (BTC) sale took to the streets of Nassau again on Monday to protest the government\u2019s decision, as the debate over the matter began in Parliament. 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