{"id":3094,"date":"2010-05-04T06:44:31","date_gmt":"2010-05-04T10:44:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/?p=3094"},"modified":"2010-05-30T04:12:10","modified_gmt":"2010-05-30T08:12:10","slug":"manning-must-explain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/?p=3094","title":{"rendered":"Manning must explain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure style=\"width: 400px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/?cat=310\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Calder Hart and Prime Minister Patrick Manning\" src=\"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blogimg\/manninghart2.jpg\" title=\"Calder Hart and Prime Minister Patrick Manning\" width=\"400\" height=\"267\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Calder Hart and Prime Minister Patrick Manning<\/figcaption><\/figure><i>Newsday Editorial<br \/>\nTuesday, May 4 2010<\/i><\/p>\n<p>PRIME Minister Patrick Manning\u2019s remarks about letting the Udecott \u201cchips fall where they may\u201d strikes us as platitudinous at best and as a cynical cop-out at worst.<\/p>\n<p>Yes, it is true that the Government held the Uff Commission of Inquiry into Udecott and then laid the full, uncut report, in Parliament, as said by Manning, but his remarks at the PNM rally on Sunday at Woodford Square really sidestepped several matters. Quite simply, Manning failed to explain his relationship with former Udecott head, Calder Hart.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nWhile the Uff Report clearly criticises the actions of Calder Hart, the simple fact is that Hart did not appoint himself as head of Udecott (along with directing the TT Mortgage Finance Company, Home Mortgage Bank and National Insurance Board), but rather he sat with the full blessing of Manning. In fact, even after Diego Martin West MP Dr Keith Rowley complained about Udecott\u2019s non-accountability under himself as line Minister, Manning\u2019s response was simply to fire Rowley on the dubious grounds of \u201cwajank\u201d behaviour, rather than to rein in Udecott..<\/p>\n<p>Manning must explain.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.newsday.co.tt\/editorial\/0,120154.html\" title=\"Manning must explain\">Full Article : newsday.co.tt<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Newsday Editorial Tuesday, May 4 2010 PRIME Minister Patrick Manning\u2019s remarks about letting the Udecott \u201cchips fall where they may\u201d strikes us as platitudinous at best and as a cynical cop-out at worst. Yes, it is true that the Government held the Uff Commission of Inquiry into Udecott and then laid the full, uncut report, &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/?p=3094\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Manning must explain<\/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":[310,1,30,7,26,319,142],"tags":[48,359,82,1015,49,1020],"class_list":["post-3094","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-elections-general-tt","category-general-tt","category-pnm","category-politics","category-udecott","category-uff-report","category-unc","tag-calder-hart","tag-newsday","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\/3094","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=3094"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3094\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3562,"href":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3094\/revisions\/3562"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3094"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3094"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3094"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}