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 parliamentary 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]
