{"id":11308,"date":"2018-09-16T15:29:24","date_gmt":"2018-09-16T19:29:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/?p=11308"},"modified":"2018-09-16T15:29:24","modified_gmt":"2018-09-16T19:29:24","slug":"pnm-kamla-must-apologise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/?p=11308","title":{"rendered":"PNM: Kamla must apologise"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>By Corey Connelly<br \/>\nSeptember 16, 2018 &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/newsday.co.tt\/2018\/09\/16\/pnm-kamla-must-apologise\/\">newsday.co.tt<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/?p=11308\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blogimg\/kamlarowley.jpg\" alt=\"Kamla Persad-Bissessar and Keith Rowley\" width=\"150\" height=\"100\" border=\"0\"><\/a>United National Congress (UNC) political leader Kamla Persad-Bissessar is likely to pay a hefty political price is she does not apologise to the nation for labelling Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley an Oreo biscuit, outgoing People\u2019s National Movement (PNM) chairman Franklin Khan stated yesterday.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nSpeaking to reporters at the post general council news conference at Balisier House, Port of Spain, Khan said members deliberated over the remark, which they deemed to be \u201cracist, derogatory, vile and unbecoming of the national leader in a society like TT.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe spin doctors could put whatever spin they want on it,\u201d he said. During the UNC\u2019s Monday Night Forum in Claxton Bay, Persad-Bissessar had described the PM as an Oreo biscuit, claiming he was pandering to one per cent of the population at the expense of the rest of citizens.<br \/>\n<i><a href=\"https:\/\/newsday.co.tt\/2018\/09\/16\/pnm-kamla-must-apologise\/\">Full Article: newsday.co.tt<\/a><\/i> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Corey Connelly September 16, 2018 &#8211; newsday.co.tt United National Congress (UNC) political leader Kamla Persad-Bissessar is likely to pay a hefty political price is she does not apologise to the nation for labelling Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley an Oreo biscuit, outgoing People\u2019s National Movement (PNM) chairman Franklin Khan stated yesterday.<\/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":[1,30,7,632,142],"tags":[1125,144,60,1015,49],"class_list":["post-11308","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-tt","category-pnm","category-politics","category-racism-watch","category-unc","tag-franklin-khan","tag-kamla-persad-bissessar","tag-keith-rowley","tag-politics","tag-tt-govt"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11308","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=11308"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11308\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11309,"href":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11308\/revisions\/11309"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11308"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11308"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11308"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}