{"id":338,"date":"2007-09-10T22:45:11","date_gmt":"2007-09-11T02:45:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/?p=338"},"modified":"2007-09-15T07:56:30","modified_gmt":"2007-09-15T11:56:30","slug":"cop-woodford-square-rally","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/?p=338","title":{"rendered":"COP&#8217;s &#8216;Real Red&#8217; First Anniversary Rally"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.triniview.com\/gallery\/main.php?g2_itemId=210111\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.triniview.com\/gallery\/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&amp;g2_itemId=210620&amp;g2_serialNumber=2\" width=\"400\" height=\"267\" border=\"0\" alt=\"COP's First Anniversary Rally\" vspace=\"0\"><br \/>\nCOP&#8217;s First Anniversary Rally in pictures<\/a><\/p>\n<p><i>TriniView.com Reporters<\/i><\/p>\n<p>With the next general elections looming, the Congress of the People held their first anniversary celebrations with a rally titled Real Red: The Event. Thousands of people from throughout the country wearing red C.O.P. jerseys packed into Woodford Square, a venue that has traditionally been politically associated with the ruling People&#8217;s National Movement. Police reportedly estimated the crowd size as between 25,000 to 30,000.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nFrom as early as 12:30 p.m., new local pop\/gospel band Rev Up entertained the swelling crowd with a slew of hit songs from David Rudder, Celine Dion, &#8216;Ras Shorty I&#8217; and Bob Marley. They were followed by dynamic band Dil-E-Nadan, for whom the crowd surged forward to the front of the stage to get a close view of. Dil-E-Nadan did not disappoint, treating the enthusiastic audience to a pulsing mix of Chutney, Reggae and Soca songs to which the crowd danced and waved C.O.P. emblazoned rags, banners and posters.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.triniview.com\/special_events\/150907.html\" title=\"COP's 'Real Red' First Anniversary Rally\">Full Article : triniview.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.trinidadexpress.com\/index.pl\/article_news?id=161200651\">COP takes over Woodford Square<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.newsday.co.tt\/politics\/0,63897.html\">COP scores big<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.newsday.co.tt\/politics\/0,63896.html\">Achong&#8217;s wife takes centre stage<\/a><br \/>\nThe Congress of the People dropped a bombshell yesterday as Marlene Coudray, CEO of the San Fernando Corporation and wife of PNM MP Larry Achong, appeared on its Woodford Square, Port-of-Spain platform.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.trinidadexpress.com\/index.pl\/article_news?id=161200683\">Coudray joins COP<\/a><br \/>\nMarlene Coudray, the common-law wife of People&#8217;s National Movement&#8217;s Point Fortin MP Larry Achong and the head of administration at the San Fernando City Corporation, has joined the Congress of the People.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.trinidadexpress.com\/index.pl\/article_news?id=161200679\">Congress open to PNM and UNC<\/a><br \/>\nCongress of the People Political Leader Winston Dookeran says the doors of his party are open to anyone from the ruling People&#8217;s National Movement (PNM)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.newsday.co.tt\/news\/0,63884.html\">Dookeran: PNM empire collapsing<\/a><br \/>\nAddressing a mammoth crowd gathered in Woodford Square, Port-of-Spain yesterday, Congress of the People leader Winston Dookeran declared that the PNM\u2019s election launch in its Laventille heartland last Wednesday, was a \u201cwake..with only the candles missing\u201d, rather than the \u201cfireworks\u201d that it was supposed to be.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.trinidadexpress.com\/index.pl\/article_news?id=161200675\">Panday: PNM supporters in Woodford Square crowd<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>COP&#8217;s First Anniversary Rally in pictures TriniView.com Reporters With the next general elections looming, the Congress of the People held their first anniversary celebrations with a rally titled Real Red: The Event. Thousands of people from throughout the country wearing red C.O.P. jerseys packed into Woodford Square, a venue that has traditionally been politically associated &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/?p=338\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">COP&#8217;s &#8216;Real Red&#8217; First Anniversary Rally<\/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":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-338","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338","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=338"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=338"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=338"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=338"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}