{"id":4042,"date":"2010-07-16T18:11:55","date_gmt":"2010-07-16T22:11:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/?p=4042"},"modified":"2010-07-17T06:55:06","modified_gmt":"2010-07-17T10:55:06","slug":"media-tour-of-the-prime-ministers-residence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/?p=4042","title":{"rendered":"Prime Minister\u2019s Residence and Diplomatic Centre"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure style=\"width: 400px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.triniview.com\/gallery\/main.php?g2_itemId=474522\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Media Tour of the Prime Minister's Residence and Diplomatic Centre\" src=\"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blogimg\/pmrL0107101293.jpg\" title=\"Media Tour of the Prime Minister's Residence and Diplomatic Centre\" border=\"0\" width=\"400\" height=\"267\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Media Tour of the Prime Minister's Residence<\/figcaption><\/figure>On Thursday July 01st 2010, the media toured the Prime Minister\u2019s Residence and Diplomatic Centre at La Fantasie Road, St Ann\u2019s. The tour was led by Government\u2019s press secretary Garvin Nicholas and head of the Prime Minister&#8217;s household Armando D\u2019Souza.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.triniview.com\/gallery\/main.php?g2_itemId=474522\">Prime Minister&#8217;s Residence and Diplomatic Centre in pictures<\/a><\/p>\n<p><big><b>Inside the Prime Minister\u2019s residence<\/b><\/big><\/p>\n<p><i>By Lara Pickford-Gordon<br \/>\nJuly 12, 2010<\/i><\/p>\n<p>On July 1, I had the opportunity to visit the Prime Minister\u2019s residence and Diplomatic Centre along with my media colleagues.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nThe tour was led by Armando d\u2019Souza, the head of the household who from the onset said we would not get to see the Prime Minister\u2019s quarters. That was for security reasons although it would have been interesting to see if the d\u00e9cor and design of that space could inspire a big \u201cwow!\u201d The media were taken from room to room while d\u2019Souza described noteworthy features. At the Diplomatic Centre we were shown modern equipment for the use of administrative staff working at conferences or other activity held there, including a media centre for press conferences. I suppose it was envisioned TT being a hub with world leaders coming here for business on a regular basis, such a facility would be needed.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.newsday.co.tt\/commentary\/0,123891.html\" title=\"Inside the Prime Minister\u2019s residence\">Full Article : newsday.co.tt<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Thursday July 01st 2010, the media toured the Prime Minister\u2019s Residence and Diplomatic Centre at La Fantasie Road, St Ann\u2019s. The tour was led by Government\u2019s press secretary Garvin Nicholas and head of the Prime Minister&#8217;s household Armando D\u2019Souza. Prime Minister&#8217;s Residence and Diplomatic Centre in pictures Inside the Prime Minister\u2019s residence By Lara &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/?p=4042\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Prime Minister\u2019s Residence and Diplomatic Centre<\/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":[28,1,178,396,295],"tags":[144,82,81,1020],"class_list":["post-4042","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-features","category-general-tt","category-media","category-peoples-partnership","category-photos","tag-kamla-persad-bissessar","tag-patrick-manning","tag-prime-ministers-residence","tag-udecott"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4042","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=4042"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4042\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4055,"href":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4042\/revisions\/4055"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4042"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4042"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4042"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}