{"id":3664,"date":"2010-06-06T04:44:08","date_gmt":"2010-06-06T08:44:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/?p=3664"},"modified":"2010-06-09T05:43:19","modified_gmt":"2010-06-09T09:43:19","slug":"pm-means-prime-minister","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/?p=3664","title":{"rendered":"PM means Prime Minister"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Lighthouse
Lighthouse of the Lord Jesus Christ Church under construction
\nat the Heights of Guanapo - Inset: Ex-PM Patrick Manning<\/figcaption><\/figure>Architect Stephen Mendes confirms Patrick Manning’s involvement in Guanapo church<\/b><\/big><\/p>\n

By Sasha Mohammed
\nSunday, June 6th 2010<\/i> <\/p>\n

Architect Stephen Mendes, the man who has held the key as to whether former prime minister Patrick Manning was personally involved in the commissioning of the controversial Guanapo church project, has finally broken his silence on the matter, confirming the ‘PM’ he wrote about in a letter dated May 2, 2006, in fact, referred to Prime Minister Patrick Manning.
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\nThe revelation comes exactly three weeks after the country’s new Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar held a news conference on May 15, 2010, nine days before the May 24 polls, in her capacity as leader of the People\u2019s Partnership, to unveil documents purported to link Manning directly to the Guanapo Heights project where a church was being built on State lands for Manning’s personal spiritual adviser Rev Juliana Pena.<\/p>\n

From those documents, Persad-Bissessar produced Mendes’ May 2 letter, which was addressed to former Urban Development Corporation of Trinidad and Tobago (UDeCOTT) executive chairman Calder Hart, and in it, he stated:
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