{"id":114,"date":"2006-11-20T06:10:56","date_gmt":"2006-11-20T10:10:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/?p=114"},"modified":"2006-11-20T06:10:56","modified_gmt":"2006-11-20T10:10:56","slug":"pnm-plans-mixed-caroni-communities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/?p=114","title":{"rendered":"PNM plans mixed Caroni communities"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i>By Adrian Boodan, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.tt\/archives\/2006-11-19\/news3.html\">guardian.co.tt<\/a><\/i><br \/>\n<i>November 19, 2006<\/i> <\/p>\n<p>Prime Minister Patrick Manning says the PNM is planning to create \u201cmixed communities\u201d on Caroni lands, so as to avoid ethnic confrontations that plague other countries around the world.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nSpeaking at Waterloo High School yesterday, after a tour of the Waterloo area, Manning said the Caroni land distribution programme would be expanded to 18,000 lots and would be available to the national community at subsidised rates of $30,000 and less. <\/p>\n<p>Anybody working for $8,000 and less could apply for the lots, he added. <\/p>\n<p>Manning\u2019s address to residents of Waterloo and PNM supporters came after an earlier tour of the area, which is in the constituency of Couva North. <\/p>\n<p>This seat was, until last month, held by former prime minister and former political leader, now chairman of the UNC, Basdeo Panday. <\/p>\n<p>Manning, joined on his tour by Senators Christine Sahadeo and Satish Ramroop, Jerry Narace and Nal Ramsingh, the Couva North PNM hopeful, was greeted warmly in the area. <\/p>\n<p>PNM diehards from across Central arrived by the maxi-loads to join the walkabout. <\/p>\n<p>Among the supporters was Kenneth Valley, father of Kevin Valley, the 21-year-old man of Boot Hill, Chaguanas who was slain in Felicity two Sundays ago. <\/p>\n<p>The killing sparked a wave of unrest between Boot Hill and Felicity residents which has since subsided into an uneasy calm. <\/p>\n<p>Manning, in a short address, prior to the start of his walkabout, urged supporters to put their best behaviour forward as the PNM prepares to take the Couva North seat when he calls the next general election. <\/p>\n<p>As he pinched babies\u2019 cheeks and greeted people on the streets, in parlours and rumshops, many residents said they were glad to see the Prime Minister in the area. <\/p>\n<p>Several of them complained that the area needed employment programmes as much as it needed drains. <\/p>\n<p><i>\u00a92005-2006 Trinidad Publishing Company Limited <\/i><\/p>\n<p>http:\/\/www.guardian.co.tt\/archives\/2006-11-19\/news3.html<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Adrian Boodan, guardian.co.tt November 19, 2006 Prime Minister Patrick Manning says the PNM is planning to create \u201cmixed communities\u201d on Caroni lands, so as to avoid ethnic confrontations that plague other countries around the world.<\/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":[1,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-114","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-tt","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114","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=114"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}