{"id":5337,"date":"2011-05-23T12:51:59","date_gmt":"2011-05-23T16:51:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/?p=5337"},"modified":"2011-05-23T12:51:59","modified_gmt":"2011-05-23T16:51:59","slug":"pm-vows-to-make-tt-a-better-place","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/?p=5337","title":{"rendered":"PM vows to make T&amp;T a better place"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img src='http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blogimg\/kamlasm.jpg' width='150' height='100' border='0' class='alignleft' title='Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar' alt='Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar' \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.tt\/news\/2011\/05\/23\/pm-vows-make-tt-better-place\">PM vows to make T&amp;T a better place<\/a><br \/>\nPrime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar wrapped up a national day of prayer at Rienzi Complex, Couva, last night by extending a branch of hope to the citizenry saying, \u201cbetter days are coming.\u201d Speaking with reporters last evening after handing out gifts to scores of supporters, Persad-Bissessar commented on recent polls which showed that her Government had a decline in its performance ratings for the past year. According to recent polls, including last Sunday\u2019s ANSA McAL Psychological Research Centre\u2019s poll in the Sunday Guardian, Persad-Bissessar\u2019s rating has fallen over the last year. The PM said that despite the setbacks, she was committed to making T&amp;T a better place.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.tt\/news\/2011\/05\/23\/nacta-opinion-survey-shows-pp-govt-slips-rating\">&#8230;Nacta opinion survey shows: PP Govt slips in rating<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.trinidadexpress.com\/news\/_We_ll_do_better_-122428774.html\">&#8216;We&#8217;ll do better&#8217;<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.tt\/news\/2011\/05\/23\/how-economist-views-mfo-poll-results-new-govt-old-pnm-vision\">How economist views MFO poll results: New Govt, old PNM vision<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.tt\/news\/2011\/05\/23\/ministers-take-stock-after-polls\">Ministers take stock after polls<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.trinidadexpress.com\/news\/Poll_just_a_snapshot__says_Carolyn-122428759.html\">Poll just a snapshot, says Carolyn<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.trinidadexpress.com\/news\/Moonilal__No_room_for_major_slip-ups-122428749.html\">Moonilal: No room for major slip-ups<\/a> <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.trinidadexpress.com\/news\/Warner__I_remain_humble-122428744.html\">Warner: I remain humble<\/a><br \/>\nGovernment Minister Jack Warner said yesterday that he is a people person and his devotion to serve all and create smiles is his secret to topping polls which show that he is the best-performing Government Minister. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.tt\/news\/2011\/05\/23\/dookeran-cop-workshop-demands-good-governance-tt\">Dookeran at COP workshop: Demands for good governance in T&amp;T<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.trinidadexpress.com\/news\/____No_easy_task_ahead_for_Govt_-122428739.html\">&#8216;No easy task ahead for Govt&#8217;<\/a><br \/>\n&#8220;I have heard them say they will do betterthere are many more pitfalls and problems they are still going to encounter largely because they are inexperienced. Running a country is not something easy to learn on the job,&#8221; said Imbert in a telephone interview with the Express.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PM vows to make T&amp;T a better place Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar wrapped up a national day of prayer at Rienzi Complex, Couva, last night by extending a branch of hope to the citizenry saying, \u201cbetter days are coming.\u201d Speaking with reporters last evening after handing out gifts to scores of supporters, Persad-Bissessar commented on &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/?p=5337\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">PM vows to make T&amp;T a better place<\/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":[141,1,178,396,7,142],"tags":[147,144,1015,49],"class_list":["post-5337","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cop","category-general-tt","category-media","category-peoples-partnership","category-politics","category-unc","tag-jack-warner","tag-kamla-persad-bissessar","tag-politics","tag-tt-govt"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5337","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=5337"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5337\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5338,"href":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5337\/revisions\/5338"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5337"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5337"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5337"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}