Isn’t it sweet that on our very first day of elbowing our way into the quickly crowding Bahamian blog scene, none other than Wendall Jones would deliver a delicious bit of dirt for us. Thanks Wendall.
By now, you must know that Wendall fired the lovely Paige Ferguson as news anchor and that subsequently led to the snap resignation of the also fine Candia Dames. What you may not know and what we can dish on is the reason why and how it all went down.
You see, what had happened is just the other day, Paige went down to the basement studio to record the news update for JCN 14. When she got there, the technicians were not in place and as a result, there was no newscast. Already smarting from the fact that the Guardian has launched an all out campaign to lure everyone not named Jones working at Wendall’s enterprise, Wendall went ballistics because there was no update. So rather than cussing out the technicians, one of whom is the son of former PLP Cabinet Minister Shane Gibson, Wendall cussed Paige out in front of the rest of her colleagues and then said the words that now has him sitting in the newsroom twiddling his thumbs: “You’re not that good anyway.”
What he said that for? This upset Paige so much that she left in tears and was fired. Because the entire JCN news staff collaborate on the news broadcasts, Wendall’s swipe at Paige was a swipe at the entire staff and royally pissed everyone off, including Candia who is about to change her last name. Candia wrote her resignation and sent it into the ungrateful Jones over the weekend and the saga has since ended up on the front pages of the dailies and is a hot topic on a couple of popular websites. None of them have this dish though, ha ha ha.
To pour some more salt into Wendall’s wounds following the bombshell departure of the bombshell reporters, we can now confirm that not one of Wendall’s remaining news staff showed up for work this morning (Monday). His daughter in the newsroom, Kendia Jones, who is normally off on Mondays because of her Sunday chores, wound up having to come in to hold the fort down this morning. But other than that, everybody including top reporters Quincy Parker, Tosheena Robinson-Blair and the talky talky guy who does sports came in. We understand a number of the very same techs who caused the initial bust up didn’t come in either. Everyone called in sick, no doubt suffering from the “Wendall-Can-Kiss-My-Ass” bug thats going around.
Oh Jonesy, why you didn’t listen to the old man when he told you you need to take care of your people, stop trying to sleep with your female staff who ain’t your children and try paying for things on time. Now, “all ya business” is out on Bahamas Black Book and we got more.
This ain’t too bad for a first post, eh?
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