{"id":3682,"date":"2010-06-09T10:10:11","date_gmt":"2010-06-09T14:10:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/?p=3682"},"modified":"2010-07-11T02:49:18","modified_gmt":"2010-07-11T06:49:18","slug":"kamla-tells-why-she-decided-not-to-meet-clinton-at-caricom-talks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/?p=3682","title":{"rendered":"Kamla Not at Caricom Talks with Clinton"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure style=\"width: 400px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar\" src=\"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blogimg\/spmL2605100352.jpg\" title=\"Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar\" width=\"400\" height=\"267\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar<\/figcaption><\/figure><big><b>Kamla tells why she decided not to meet Clinton at Caricom talks<\/b><\/big><\/p>\n<p><i>By Anna Ramdass<br \/>\nJune 9th 2010 &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.trinidadexpress.com\/index.pl\/nart?id=161692509&#038;weba=NWSNews\">trinidadexpress.com<\/a><\/i><\/p>\n<p>Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar has blanked today&#8217;s Caricom meeting with United States Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton, in Barbados because she felt it would be an insult to the people who elected her to travel without taking the parliamentary oath.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nPersad-Bissessar gave this explanation yesterday in response to criticism from Opposition Leader Dr Keith Rowley who said the Prime Minister&#8217;s failure to attend today&#8217;s meeting was &#8216;a dereliction of duty&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;I was of the view that we have not been sworn into the Parliament and it is the people who elected us to represent them there. It would be offensive to the people to travel to represent them without taking the oath in the Parliament,&#8217; said Persad-Bissessar in a brief interview with the Express yesterday by phone.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.trinidadexpress.com\/index.pl\/nart?id=161692509&#038;weba=NWSNews\" title=\"Kamla tells why she decided not to meet Clinton at Caricom talks\">Full Article : trinidadexpress.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kamla tells why she decided not to meet Clinton at Caricom talks By Anna Ramdass June 9th 2010 &#8211; trinidadexpress.com Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar has blanked today&#8217;s Caricom meeting with United States Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton, in Barbados because she felt it would be an insult to the people who elected her to travel &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/?p=3682\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Kamla Not at Caricom Talks with Clinton<\/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":[1,5,396,7,142],"tags":[1035,144,1015,418,49],"class_list":["post-3682","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-tt","category-international","category-peoples-partnership","category-politics","category-unc","tag-caricom","tag-kamla-persad-bissessar","tag-politics","tag-prime-minister","tag-tt-govt"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3682","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=3682"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3682\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3992,"href":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3682\/revisions\/3992"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3682"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3682"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3682"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}