{"id":313,"date":"2007-08-02T16:53:56","date_gmt":"2007-08-02T20:53:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/?p=313"},"modified":"2007-08-03T13:16:01","modified_gmt":"2007-08-03T17:16:01","slug":"caricom-nations-must-unite","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/?p=313","title":{"rendered":"Ugandan President: &#8216;Caricom nations must unite&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div align=\"center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.triniview.com\/gallery\/main.php?g2_itemId=189740\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.triniview.com\/gallery\/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&amp;g2_itemId=192495&amp;g2_serialNumber=2\" width=\"400\" height=\"267\" border=\"0\" alt=\"POS Emancipation Day Parade\"><br \/>\nPOS Emancipation Day Parade in pictures<\/a><\/div>\n<p><i>By Sandra Singh<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.newsday.co.tt\/news\/0,61665.html\">www.newsday.co.tt<\/a><br \/>\nThursday, August 2 2007<\/i><\/p>\n<p>click on pic to zoom inEducation Minister Hazel Manning looked a picture of elegance at the parade&#8230;.UGANDAN President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni yesterday encouraged all CARICOM nations to unite and become the sixth region of Africa. Museveni speaking at the \u201cKambule\u201d in Port-of-Spain amidst heavy security said attempts are being made to unite the continent of Africa, comprising of over 900 million people of which 750 million are \u201cblack people\u201d adding that people in the Caribbean should do the same.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nIn his short address, Museveni mustered up lusty applause from the large crowd in attendance as he encouraged all to be proud of their ancestors. \u201cDescendants of the African people should be proud of their heritage,\u201d declared Museveni. He stated that the \u201ctragedies\u201d such as the slave trade, colonialism and the marginalisation that black people had experienced in the last 500 years should not be blamed solely on the Europeans claiming that their own African tribal leaders should share the blame. \u201cThe chiefs are also responsible for this tragedy. Instead of uniting, they fought among themselves\u201d stated Museveni.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.newsday.co.tt\/news\/0,61665.html\" title=\"Caricom nations must unite\">Full Article : newsday.co.tt<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>POS Emancipation Day Parade in pictures By Sandra Singh www.newsday.co.tt Thursday, August 2 2007 click on pic to zoom inEducation Minister Hazel Manning looked a picture of elegance at the parade&#8230;.UGANDAN President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni yesterday encouraged all CARICOM nations to unite and become the sixth region of Africa. Museveni speaking at the \u201cKambule\u201d in &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/?p=313\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Ugandan President: &#8216;Caricom nations must unite&#8217;<\/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":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-313","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313","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=313"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=313"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=313"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=313"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}