Bahamas News Today | Tensions In Bahamas Parliament, Lawmaker Throws The Symbolic Mace Out | N18G

Bahamas News Today | Tensions In Bahamas Parliament, Lawmaker Throws The Symbolic Mace Out | N18G

Parliament member Shanendon Cartwright, frustrated after Speaker Patricia Deveaux did not let him speak, was seen rushing up where she was seated, grabbing the parliamentary mace, a heavy ceremonial staff, off the bench, and then tossing it out a nearby window. He, alongside several ally lawmakers, were forced out of the building by police.It comes after U.S. federal prosecutors charged several high-ranking Bahamian police officials with facilitating the flow of cocaine into the U.S. in exchange for bribes.The move harks back to 1965, when the leader of the opposition threw the mace out of a window in a push for political change, an event that became known as "Black Tuesday."

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Source: Reuters

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