{"id":211,"date":"2007-04-02T07:36:12","date_gmt":"2007-04-02T11:36:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/?p=211"},"modified":"2007-04-02T07:36:12","modified_gmt":"2007-04-02T11:36:12","slug":"jamaica-gleaner-bombastic-trinidadians","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/?p=211","title":{"rendered":"Jamaica Gleaner: Bombastic Trinidadians"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i>By <b>Dawn Ritch<\/b>, Columnist<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.jamaica-gleaner.com\/gleaner\/20070325\/cleisure\/cleisure4.html\">www.jamaica-gleaner.com<\/a><br \/>\nMarch 25, 2007<\/i><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blogimg\/people.jpg\" width=\"150\" height=\"113\" border=\"0\" align=\"left\" alt=\"Trini People\">Any reader will know that I think the country&#8217;s domestic financial sector was handed to Trinidad and Barbados on aplatter. By any measure this is a strategic industry.<\/p>\n<p>Also by any measure there is nothing more bombastic than a Trinidadian. The Barbadians are still conscious of the fact that they occupy a little atoll, even if its real estate prices now beat those of the Bahamas, which were high to begin with. Their sea-front villas are being snapped up by rich people from the industrialised world. As a direct consequence, the Barbadian prime minister has had to defend himself against charges of selling out the country to rich foreigners. In effect, he&#8217;s replied that he doesn&#8217;t regret it.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nIn the case of Trinidad, nobody wants to live down there because there are poisonous snakes and no mountains. Murder down there makes a speciality of mutilation. The only part of that country which is any good is the island of Tobago. But a luxury hotel there has made its guests violently ill three times over the last five years according to the Sunday Times, a U.K. newspaper. It seems to me nobody would want to go there, except another Trinidadian.<br \/>\n<i><b><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jamaica-gleaner.com\/gleaner\/20070325\/cleisure\/cleisure4.html\">Continue reading: &#8216;Bombastic Trinidadians&#8217;<\/a><\/b><\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Dawn Ritch, Columnist www.jamaica-gleaner.com March 25, 2007 Any reader will know that I think the country&#8217;s domestic financial sector was handed to Trinidad and Barbados on aplatter. By any measure this is a strategic industry. Also by any measure there is nothing more bombastic than a Trinidadian. The Barbadians are still conscious of the &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/?p=211\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Jamaica Gleaner: Bombastic Trinidadians<\/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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-211","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-tt"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211","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=211"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=211"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=211"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=211"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}