{"id":349,"date":"2007-09-29T02:56:12","date_gmt":"2007-09-29T06:56:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/?p=349"},"modified":"2007-09-29T10:00:35","modified_gmt":"2007-09-29T14:00:35","slug":"polling-day-november-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/?p=349","title":{"rendered":"POLLING DAY: NOVEMBER 5"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.tt\/news1.html\">POLLING DAY 5 weeks away<\/a><br \/>\nThat&#8217;s the general election date which Prime Minister Patrick Manning finally unfolded from his &#8220;back pocket&#8221; at the end of the fifth and final session of the Parliament yesterday&#8230; <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.newsday.co.tt\/news\/0,65040.html\">PM pulls Nov 5<\/a><br \/>\nThe election date mystery is no more. Prime Minister Patrick Manning, yesterday dug deep into his back pocket and pulled out November 5 as the date for the General Election, ending one year of speculation.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.trinidadexpress.com\/index.pl\/article_news?id=161209299\">Kamla: November fifth is judgment day<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.tt\/news5.html\">Dookeran: We are ready to rumble<\/a> <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.tt\/news6.html\">&#8216;Poll date a disrespect to Hindus&#8217;<\/a><br \/>\nOut of his back pocket the big announcement came as Prime Minister Patrick Manning yesterday announced the general election date&#8211;November 5&#8230; <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.newsday.co.tt\/news\/0,65041.html\">EBC machinery kicks into gear<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.newsday.co.tt\/news\/0,65044.html\">Trade unions: Settle with us first<\/a><br \/>\nTrade union representatives were yesterday thankful that Prime Minister Patrick Manning had ended the &#8220;cat and mouse game&#8221; by announcing November 5 as the election date. They are calling for the Government to settle outstanding negotiations.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.newsday.co.tt\/politics\/0,65058.html\">Election clash for Muslims, Hindus<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.tt\/news7.html\">Ex-alderman tipped to replace Point Fortin MP<\/a> <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.tt\/news10.html\">Kamla wants Bas, not Jack&#8230; to lead Alliance<\/a> <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.trinidadexpress.com\/index.pl\/article_news?id=161209307\">Sat sends election warning to PM<\/a><br \/>\nThe last time Prime Minister Patrick Manning called a general election before an East Indian festival, he lost to the opposition party&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.trinidadexpress.com\/index.pl\/article_news?id=161209305\">Panday: I will die with my boots on<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.trinidadexpress.com\/index.pl\/article_news?id=161209283\">&#8216;PM couldn&#8217;t wait&#8217;<\/a><br \/>\nManning eyeing COP surge, says Ryan<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>POLLING DAY 5 weeks away That&#8217;s the general election date which Prime Minister Patrick Manning finally unfolded from his &#8220;back pocket&#8221; at the end of the fifth and final session of the Parliament yesterday&#8230; PM pulls Nov 5 The election date mystery is no more. Prime Minister Patrick Manning, yesterday dug deep into his back &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/?p=349\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">POLLING DAY: NOVEMBER 5<\/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-349","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\/349","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=349"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/349\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=349"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=349"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=349"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}