{"id":3594,"date":"2010-06-02T08:19:11","date_gmt":"2010-06-02T12:19:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/?p=3594"},"modified":"2010-06-02T08:27:55","modified_gmt":"2010-06-02T12:27:55","slug":"all-11-pnm-mps-back-rowley","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/?p=3594","title":{"rendered":"All 11 PNM MPs back Rowley"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure style=\"width: 400px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/?p=3594\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Dr Keith Rowley\" src=\"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blogimg\/rowley020510.jpg\" title=\"Dr Keith Rowley\" width=\"400\" height=\"267\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dr Keith Rowley<\/figcaption><\/figure><i>By Sean Douglas<br \/>\nJune 02, 2010 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newsday.co.tt\/news\/0,121766.html\">newsday.co.tt<\/a><\/i><\/p>\n<p>PNM chairman Conrad Enill yesterday told Newsday that Diego Martin West MP Dr Keith Rowley has received the support of all 11 PNM MPs to become Leader of the Opposition.<\/p>\n<p>Enill scotched previous reports that only ten MPs were backing Rowley, amid claims that Diego Martin North East MP Colm Imbert was not supporting Rowley but was himself seeking to become Opposition Leader. Enill said a letter with the names of all 11 of Rowley\u2019s colleagues was sent yesterday to President George Maxwell Richards, indicating support for Rowley to become Opposition Leader.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\n\u201cThat was communicated to the President today. That process is now complete. The President today received all the signatures supporting Dr Rowley.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He said the ceremony for the President to present Rowley with the instruments of appointment as Opposition Leader would be held at 4 pm on Friday. Enill noted that meanwhile, Rowley has until June 14 &#8211; the date tentatively set for the opening of Parliament &#8211; to select six Opposition Senators. \u201cHe is consulting widely,\u201d remarked Enill of Rowley. Otherwise Enill said he was now simply trying to ensure that the PNM\u2019s transitional arrangements\u2013 as it moves from the leadership of former Prime Minister Patrick Manning to Rowley\u2013 are done \u201cwithout acrimony or negatives\u201d that often mark such handovers.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.newsday.co.tt\/news\/0,121766.html\" title=\"All 11 PNM MPs back Rowley\">Full Article : newsday.co.tt<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Sean Douglas June 02, 2010 newsday.co.tt PNM chairman Conrad Enill yesterday told Newsday that Diego Martin West MP Dr Keith Rowley has received the support of all 11 PNM MPs to become Leader of the Opposition. Enill scotched previous reports that only ten MPs were backing Rowley, amid claims that Diego Martin North East &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/?p=3594\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">All 11 PNM MPs back Rowley<\/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":[1,217,30,7],"tags":[60,1015,397,398],"class_list":["post-3594","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-tt","category-parliament","category-pnm","category-politics","tag-keith-rowley","tag-politics","tag-sean-douglas","tag-the-opposition"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3594","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=3594"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3594\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3597,"href":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3594\/revisions\/3597"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3594"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3594"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3594"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}