Shanendon Cartwright

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Shanendon Cartwright
Member of the Parliament of the Bahamas for St. Barnabas
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2017
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Political party Free National Movement

Shanendon Eugene Cartwright is a Bahamian politician from the opposition Free National Movement. [1] He is the member of parliament for St. Barnabas. [2]

He was first elected in the 2017 Bahamian general election. [3] He was re-elected in the 2021 Bahamian general election. [4]

Cartwright was executive chairman of the Bahamas Public Parks and Beaches Authority. [5]

In 2022, he was elected deputy leader of the Free National Movement (FNM). [6]

On 4 December 2024, Cartwright threw the parlimentary mace out of a window, after feeling Speaker Patricia Deveaux did not let him speak. [7] This move paralleled an incident in 1965, when the leader of the opposition also threw the mace out of a window, pushing for political change, in an event since dubbed "Black Tuesday". [8] It followed reports from US federal prosecutors that Bahamian officials were facilitating imports of cocaine into the United States in exchange for bribes. [7] [9] Members of the FNM were later forced out of the building by police. Cartwright was later released. [8]

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