{"id":2767,"date":"2010-03-26T03:54:18","date_gmt":"2010-03-26T07:54:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/?p=2767"},"modified":"2010-03-26T03:54:18","modified_gmt":"2010-03-26T07:54:18","slug":"pm-to-hold-private-meeting-with-syrianlebanese-group","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/?p=2767","title":{"rendered":"PM to hold private meeting with Syrian\/Lebanese group"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/?p=2767\"><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 is to hold a private meeting today with members of the Syrian\/Lebanese community, TV6 News reported last night.<\/p>\n<p>The meeting will be held at a top businessman\u2019s home in an upscale area in West Trinidad. It has been arranged at Manning\u2019s request, by UDeCOTT\u2019s new chairman, Jearlean John.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nManning requested to meet with the powerful, tight-knit Syrian Lebanese community, whose members control the majority of businesses in Port of Spain and who have been long-standing financiers of the ruling People\u2019s National Movement (PNM).<\/p>\n<p>TV6 reported that the meeting is a direct response to what Manning saw as the very positive response given to Opposition Leader Kamla Persad-Bissessar and her team on Tuesday, when she addressed a Downtown Owners and Merchants Association (DOMA) luncheon.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.trinidadexpress.com\/index.pl\/nart?id=161615029\" title=\"PM to hold private meeting with Syrian\/Lebanese group\">Full Article : trinidadexpress.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>***<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/guardian.co.tt\/news\/politics\/2010\/03\/25\/need-business-and-politics-mix-kamla\">Need for business and politics to mix\u2014Kamla<\/a> March 25, 2010<br \/>\nOpposition Leader Kamla Persad-Bissessar says there must be a relationship between business and politics in order to bring about change in the country. She was the guest speaker at the Downtown Owners and Merchants Association&#8217;s (Doma) quarterly business meeting at the Jaffa Restaurant, Queen&#8217;s Park Oval, Port-of-Spain, on Tuesday. Persad-Bissessar was responding to a statement by Doma president Gregory Aboud during his address.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.trinidadexpress.com\/index.pl\/nart?id=161613633\">Kamla extends hand to business sector<\/a> March 24, 2010<br \/>\nOpposition Leader Kamla Persad-Bissessar yesterday extended a hand to the business community, urging them to partner with her to move the country forward. Persad-Bissessar, feature speaker at the first quarterly meeting of the Downtown Owners and Merchants Association (DOMA) at the Jaffa Restaurant, Port of Spain, said the business sector was conducting its business affairs amidst all kinds of conditions that negatively impact on them. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prime Minister Patrick Manning is to hold a private meeting today with members of the Syrian\/Lebanese community, TV6 News reported last night. The meeting will be held at a top businessman\u2019s home in an upscale area in West Trinidad. It has been arranged at Manning\u2019s request, by UDeCOTT\u2019s new chairman, Jearlean John.<\/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":[11,30,7,142],"tags":[82,1015,49],"class_list":["post-2767","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture","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\/2767","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=2767"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2767\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2768,"href":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2767\/revisions\/2768"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2767"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2767"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2767"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}