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<span style="font-weight: bold"> Confirmed : Protestors in Nassau ...any ( BBC )...</span>
Protestors in the Bahamas marched outside the parliament in Nassau on Monday, over the government's controversial decision to sell off a majority share of the country's telephone company to Cable and Wireless. Fifty-one percent of Bahamas Telecommunications Company will be given over to Cable and Wireless - rebranded in the Caribbean as LIME - under a deal signed by Prime Minister Hubert Ingraham.That deal is being debated in parliament this week.All but one MP from the ruling Free National Movement party voted in favour of the sale this morning.One governing MP Branville McCartney resigned minutes after his party voted to approve the sale.The opposition party voted against the sale.
<span style="font-weight: bold"> Confirmed : Protestors in Nassau ...any ( BBC )...</span>
Protestors in the Bahamas marched outside the parliament in Nassau on Monday, over the government's controversial decision to sell off a majority share of the country's telephone company to Cable and Wireless. Fifty-one percent of Bahamas Telecommunications Company will be given over to Cable and Wireless - rebranded in the Caribbean as LIME - under a deal signed by Prime Minister Hubert Ingraham.That deal is being debated in parliament this week.All but one MP from the ruling Free National Movement party voted in favour of the sale this morning.One governing MP Branville McCartney resigned minutes after his party voted to approve the sale.The opposition party voted against the sale.