{"id":3677,"date":"2010-06-09T05:42:37","date_gmt":"2010-06-09T09:42:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/?p=3677"},"modified":"2010-06-09T05:47:30","modified_gmt":"2010-06-09T09:47:30","slug":"govt-will-restore-president%e2%80%99s-house","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/?p=3677","title":{"rendered":"Govt will restore President\u2019s House"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure style=\"width: 400px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/?cat=310\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"President's House\" src=\"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blogimg\/presidenthouse.jpg\" title=\"President's House\" width=\"400\" height=\"267\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">President's House<\/figcaption><\/figure><i>Wednesday, June 9 2010<\/i><\/p>\n<p>THE People\u2019s Partnership will restore President\u2019s House in St Ann\u2019s to its former glory. This was the assurance given by Minister in the Ministry of Works and Transport, Rudy Indarsingh.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\n\u201cBeing a responsible government, we will restore President\u2019s House to what it once was,\u201d he assured.<\/p>\n<p>Indarsingh indicated that Works and Transport Minister, Jack Warner, who is currently on FIFA business in South Africa, has asked the ministry\u2019s permanent secretary to provide him with a report on the status of stabilisation works on President\u2019s House.<\/p>\n<p><figure style=\"width: 400px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/?cat=310\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Top Floor of West Wing, President's House Collapses\" src=\"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blogimg\/presidenthouse2.jpg\" title=\"Top Floor of West Wing, President's House Collapses\" width=\"400\" height=\"267\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Top Floor of West Wing, President's House Collapses<\/figcaption><\/figure>One week before the May 24 general election, a section of the roof on the building\u2019s west wing, collapsed.<\/p>\n<p>While Udecott initially moved in to stabilise President House, an order issued by former works minister Colm Imbert shifted the responsibility of those works to the ministry.<\/p>\n<p>Indarsingh said Warner will be handling the matter directly after he returns home from South Africa on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>President George Maxwell Richards, who currently resides at the presidential cottage located close to President\u2019s House, has declined an invitation from Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar to occupy the nearby Prime Minister\u2019s official residence at La Fantasie.<\/p>\n<p>Former Prime Minister Patrick Manning moved out of the residence after the election and returned to his townhouse in San Fernando. Persad-Bissessar has not moved into the residence to date.<\/p>\n<p>http:\/\/www.newsday.co.tt\/news\/0,122143.html<\/p>\n<p><b>Related:<\/b><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/?p=3261\">Shame: President\u2019s Roof Collapses<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/?p=3057\">Kamla: I will not live at La Fantasie<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wednesday, June 9 2010 THE People\u2019s Partnership will restore President\u2019s House in St Ann\u2019s to its former glory. 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