{"id":10151,"date":"2017-07-03T04:43:54","date_gmt":"2017-07-03T08:43:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/?p=10151"},"modified":"2017-07-03T04:43:54","modified_gmt":"2017-07-03T08:43:54","slug":"marlene-fired-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/?p=10151","title":{"rendered":"Marlene fired again"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><I>By Gail Alexander<br \/>\nJuly 02, 2017 &#8211; <A HREF=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.tt\/news\/2017-07-02\/marlene-fired-again\">guardian.co.tt<\/A><\/I><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/?tag=selwyn-r-cudjoe\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blogimg\/MarleneMcDonald.jpg\" alt=\"Marlene McDonald\" width=\"150\" height=\"100\" border=\"0\"><\/a>In what\u2019s probably the shortest-lived Government appointment in recent memory, Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley yesterday fired Marlene McDonald from his Cabinet (again) after he had re-appointed her to office just three days ago. In fact, McDonald didn\u2019t even have time to move into the Public Utilities Ministry for which she had been announced last Thursday and for which she\u2019d taken the oath of office at President\u2019s House, St Ann\u2019s, last Friday.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nAnd her Port-of-Spain South constituents &#8211; like Kenroy Dopwell &#8211; are now hurt and angry enough to urge her to challenge Rowley for the leadership in next year\u2019s People\u2019s National Movement (PNM) election.<\/p>\n<p><I><B><A HREF=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.tt\/news\/2017-07-02\/marlene-fired-again\">Full Article : guardian.co.tt<\/A><\/B><\/I><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Gail Alexander July 02, 2017 &#8211; guardian.co.tt In what\u2019s probably the shortest-lived Government appointment in recent memory, Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley yesterday fired Marlene McDonald from his Cabinet (again) after he had re-appointed her to office just three days ago. In fact, McDonald didn\u2019t even have time to move into the Public Utilities &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/?p=10151\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Marlene fired again<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,30,7],"tags":[834,60,304,1015,49],"class_list":["post-10151","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-tt","category-pnm","category-politics","tag-guardian","tag-keith-rowley","tag-marlene-mcdonald","tag-politics","tag-tt-govt"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10151","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10151"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10151\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10153,"href":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10151\/revisions\/10153"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}