{"id":2641,"date":"2010-03-10T20:02:15","date_gmt":"2010-03-11T00:02:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/?p=2641"},"modified":"2010-03-10T21:28:18","modified_gmt":"2010-03-11T01:28:18","slug":"dr-rowley-alleges-pm-was-aware-of-bid-rigging","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/?p=2641","title":{"rendered":"Dr Rowley alleges PM was aware of bid rigging"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i><b>Flashback: October 21, 2009<\/b><\/i><\/p>\n<p><object width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/K3MF2rs8HwA&amp;hl=en&amp;showsearch=0&amp;fs=1&amp;\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/K3MF2rs8HwA&amp;hl=en&amp;showsearch=0&amp;fs=1&amp;\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><\/embed><\/object><br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\n<i><b>Flashback: October 20, 2009<\/b><\/i><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.newsday.co.tt\/news\/0,109475.html\">UDECOTT WORSE THAN PIARCO<\/a><br \/>PULLING no punches as he fearlessly trained his guns on his political leader, Diego Martin West MP Dr Keith Rowley yesterday launched a scathing attack on Prime Minister Patrick Manning, declaring the Udecott scandal was ten times worse than the Piarco Airport affair and warning that come the next General Election, the issue would be about PNM corruption. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/guardian.co.tt\/news\/general\/2009\/10\/20\/rowley-udecott-affairs-smelling\">Rowley: Udecott affairs smelling<\/a><br \/>In a scathing attack on his political leader and Prime Minister Patrick Manning, Diego Martin West MP Dr Keith Rowley yesterday said the affairs of controversial State-owned Urban Development Corporation of Trinidad and Tobago (Udecott) &#8220;smells to the high heavens.&#8221; He said the PNM was being put on trial because of the support its political leader Manning was giving to the controversial Udecott.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.trinidadexpress.com\/index.pl\/article_news?id=161546239\">PNM on trial<\/a><br \/>Rowley on Bill to save UDeCOTT enquiry<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/guardian.co.tt\/news\/politics\/2009\/10\/20\/he-wasn-t-fired-over-udecott-manning\">He wasn&#8217;t fired over Udecott &mdash;Manning<\/a><br \/>Prime Minister Patrick Manning is insisting he fired Dr Keith Rowley from the Trade and Industry Ministry because of his behaviour and not because of concerns raised by the Diego Martin West MP over the Urban Development Corporation of Trinidad and Tobago (Udecott).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.newsday.co.tt\/politics\/0,109490.html\">&#8216;I never fired Rowley over Udecott&#8217;<\/a><br \/>\nPRIME MINISTER Patrick Manning yesterday broke his silence on the ongoing controversy involving Udecott and the Uff Commission of Inquiry. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Flashback: October 21, 2009<\/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":[37,29,30,7,26],"tags":[48,60,82,1015,49,1020],"class_list":["post-2641","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-corruption","category-finance","category-pnm","category-politics","category-udecott","tag-calder-hart","tag-keith-rowley","tag-patrick-manning","tag-politics","tag-tt-govt","tag-udecott"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2641","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=2641"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2641\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2644,"href":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2641\/revisions\/2644"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2641"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2641"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2641"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}