{"id":2391,"date":"2010-01-25T22:49:55","date_gmt":"2010-01-26T02:49:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/?p=2391"},"modified":"2010-01-25T22:49:55","modified_gmt":"2010-01-26T02:49:55","slug":"pm-pnm-does-not-wash-dirty-linen-in-public","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/?p=2391","title":{"rendered":"PM: PNM does not wash dirty linen in public"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i>by Michelle Loubon<br \/>\nJanuary 25, 2010 &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/guardian.co.tt\/news\/politics\/2010\/01\/25\/pm-pnm-does-not-wash-dirty-linen-public\">guardian.co.tt<\/a><\/i><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/?p=2391\"><img src='http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blogimg\/manning3.jpg' width='150' height='100' border='0' class='alignleft' alt='PM Patrick Manning' \/><\/a>The PNM does not wash its dirty linen in public. Prime Minister Patrick Manning made this comment during the party\u2019s 54th anniversary celebrations interfaith thanksgiving rally at Balisier House, Port-of-Spain, yesterday. Its theme was \u201cWe\u2019ve come this far by faith.\u201d Although he maintained the PNM did not interfere in the politics of other political parties, Manning boasted that the PNM model was the best with regard to internal organisation and discipline. \u201cWe take careful note of what goes on in other political parties\u2026We want to know what not to do,\u201d he said. He then waded into the practice of washing dirty linen in public. \u201cIf you find dirty linen being washed in public, it has to do with the method of selection,\u201d Manning said.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\n\u201cIf you find people are washing their dirty linen in public, it is not the way of the PNM.\u201d Commenting on the modus operandi of other political parties, Manning said: \u201cIs it right to say what you want about what you want? Then you say yesterday was yesterday today, and today and tomorrow will see about itself. Then you expect we will put confidence in you.\u201d Touching on the topic of alcohol, he said after World War II, the British elected Sir Winston Churchill even though he was a heavy drinker. \u201cThey needed somebody to hold the country together\u2026After that they voted him out,\u201d he said. \u201cIf we know somebody drinks, don\u2019t you think we should know about it?\u201d<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/guardian.co.tt\/news\/politics\/2010\/01\/25\/pm-pnm-does-not-wash-dirty-linen-public\" title=\"PM: PNM does not wash dirty linen in public\">Full Article : guardian.co.tt<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Michelle Loubon January 25, 2010 &#8211; guardian.co.tt The PNM does not wash its dirty linen in public. Prime Minister Patrick Manning made this comment during the party\u2019s 54th anniversary celebrations interfaith thanksgiving rally at Balisier House, Port-of-Spain, yesterday. Its theme was \u201cWe\u2019ve come this far by faith.\u201d Although he maintained the PNM did not &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/?p=2391\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">PM: PNM does not wash dirty linen in public<\/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":[1,30,7,142],"tags":[82,1015,49],"class_list":["post-2391","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-tt","category-pnm","category-politics","category-unc","tag-patrick-manning","tag-politics","tag-tt-govt"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2391","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=2391"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2391\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2392,"href":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2391\/revisions\/2392"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2391"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2391"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2391"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}