{"id":2760,"date":"2010-03-24T08:33:29","date_gmt":"2010-03-24T12:33:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/?p=2760"},"modified":"2010-03-24T09:14:27","modified_gmt":"2010-03-24T13:14:27","slug":"pm-drug-dealers-against-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/?p=2760","title":{"rendered":"PM: Drug dealers against me"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i>By Cecily Asson<br \/>\nMarch 24, 2010<\/i><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/?p=2760\"><img src='http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blogimg\/manning2.jpg' width='150' height='113' border='0' class='alignleft' alt='PM Patrick Manning' \/><\/a>PRIME MINISTER Patrick Manning has accused the country\u2019s drug dealers of being \u201cagainst me\u201d ever since his government\u2019s acquisition of tens of millions of dollars worth in security technology including a radar system, fast patrol sea crafts, interceptors and helicopters to tackle the drug trade.<\/p>\n<p>And in a strange twist, Manning said that as a result of drug dealers viewing him as \u201cthe man who standing in their way\u201d, he is now being attacked daily in the media.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nSpeaking on Monday night before supporters who gathered at St Margaret\u2019s Junction in Claxton Bay, he said, \u201cThis is the price I am called upon to pay. It matters not my friend&#8230;I am a soldier!\u201d<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.newsday.co.tt\/politics\/0,117857.html\" title=\"Drug dealers against me\">Full Article : newsday.co.tt<\/a><\/p>\n<p>***<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.trinidadexpress.com\/index.pl\/nart?id=161613477\">PM: I\u2019m the target of drug dealers<\/a><br \/>\n<em>After launch of Coast Guard boats&#8230;<\/em><br \/>\nPrime Minister Patrick Manning believes his launch last month of drug interdiction Coast Guard boats has something to do with the increased level of attack against him in the media in recent weeks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Cecily Asson March 24, 2010 PRIME MINISTER Patrick Manning has accused the country\u2019s drug dealers of being \u201cagainst me\u201d ever since his government\u2019s acquisition of tens of millions of dollars worth in security technology including a radar system, fast patrol sea crafts, interceptors and helicopters to tackle the drug trade. And in a strange &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/?p=2760\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">PM: Drug dealers against me<\/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":[37,6,305,29,178,30,7],"tags":[44,82,1015,49],"class_list":["post-2760","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-corruption","category-crime","category-drug-trade","category-finance","category-media","category-pnm","category-politics","tag-crime-in-tt","tag-patrick-manning","tag-politics","tag-tt-govt"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2760","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=2760"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2760\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2762,"href":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2760\/revisions\/2762"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2760"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2760"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2760"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}