{"id":3617,"date":"2010-06-03T02:53:44","date_gmt":"2010-06-03T06:53:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/?p=3617"},"modified":"2010-06-03T02:54:53","modified_gmt":"2010-06-03T06:54:53","slug":"penny-tipped-for-senate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/?p=3617","title":{"rendered":"Penny tipped for Senate"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure style=\"width: 400px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/?p=3617\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Mrs. Penelope Beckles\" src=\"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blogimg\/pbeckles290410.jpg\" title=\"Mrs. Penelope Beckles\" width=\"400\" height=\"267\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mrs. Penelope Beckles<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><i>By Clint Chan Tack<br \/>\nJune 03, 2010 &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newsday.co.tt\/news\/0,121815.html\">newsday.co.tt<\/a><\/i><\/p>\n<p>AS the People\u2019s National Movement (PNM) prepares for its new role as this country\u2019s parliamentary opposition, there appears to be growing support for former Arima MP Pennelope Beckles to be appointed as Leader of Opposition Business in the Senate and to succeed Patrick Manning as PNM political leader.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nBeckles, former attorney general Bridgid Annisette-George, former ministers Fitzgerald Hinds, Anthony Roberts, Christine Sahadeo and attorney Faris Al-Rawi are reportedly among the names being considered by Opposition Leader-designate Dr Keith Rowley to be Opposition senators in the Tenth Parliament which is expected to convene on June 14.<\/p>\n<p>Al Rawi is the son of former PNM San Fernando West MP Diane Seukeran. Under Section 40 (b) of the Constitution, the President appoints six senators on the advice of the Opposition Leader.<\/p>\n<p>PNM chairman Conrad Enill told Newsday Rowley \u201chas been in consultation\u201d with his 11 colleagues in the House of Representatives (including Manning) and other persons in the party on the selection of the best Opposition senatorial team. Rowley said he would announce the names of the six senators after he received his instrument of appointment as Opposition Leader from President George Maxwell Richards. That event takes place at Knowsley, Port-of-Spain tomorrow at 4 pm.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.newsday.co.tt\/news\/0,121815.html\" title=\"Penny tipped for Senate\">Full Article : newsday.co.tt<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Clint Chan Tack June 03, 2010 &#8211; newsday.co.tt AS the People\u2019s National Movement (PNM) prepares for its new role as this country\u2019s parliamentary opposition, there appears to be growing support for former Arima MP Pennelope Beckles to be appointed as Leader of Opposition Business in the Senate and to succeed Patrick Manning as PNM &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/?p=3617\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Penny tipped for Senate<\/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":[60,82,327,1015,398],"class_list":["post-3617","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-tt","category-parliament","category-pnm","category-politics","tag-keith-rowley","tag-patrick-manning","tag-pennelope-beckles","tag-politics","tag-the-opposition"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3617","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=3617"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3617\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3619,"href":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3617\/revisions\/3619"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3617"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3617"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3617"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}