{"id":54310,"date":"2020-08-26T12:52:15","date_gmt":"2020-08-26T16:52:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/?p=54310"},"modified":"2020-08-26T17:11:21","modified_gmt":"2020-08-26T21:11:21","slug":"fitzgerald-hinds-not-even-aware","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/?p=54310","title":{"rendered":"Fitzgerald Hinds: Not even aware&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Minister of Youth Development and National Services Fitzgerald Hinds receives backlash after posting this comment on facebook.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/?tag=raffique-shah\"><img src='http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blogimg\/hindswetting.jpg' width='150' height='100' border='0' class='alignleft' alt='Fitzgerald Hinds' \/><\/a>&#8220;Not even aware that I was  in his focus,  on exiting the Massy Foodstore, I entered my vehicle. I settled in and observed a body up to my window. Closer observation revealed a perhaps 30-year old, healthy-looking, muscular man. I looked for the piper in him and could not find it. He beckoned me to talk to him. I rolled down my glass window and he delivered! \u201c Ah just asking for a lil $20 to buy something to eat!\u201d I immediately reflected on a previous occasion when another young man asked me for \u201cah lil $100\u201d.  I have given financial and other assistance many times in greater quantity, but I refused them both! Ah doh like the idea of young, apparently fit men begging! And ah doh like it more, when they tell me hummuch dey want!&#8221;<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\n&#8220;I reflected deeply on my new portfolio, took a deep breath; and drove  away highly energized to do this critical work.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/fitzgerald.hinds\/posts\/2741295032752558<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blogimg\/hinds26082020b.jpg\" alt=\"Fitzgerald Hinds' now deleted post on facebook - August 26, 2020\" width=\"475\" height=\"563\" border=\"0\"><br \/>\nHinds&#8217; post has since been deleted<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Minister of Youth Development and National Services Fitzgerald Hinds receives backlash after posting this comment on facebook. &#8220;Not even aware that I was in his focus, on exiting the Massy Foodstore, I entered my vehicle. I settled in and observed a body up to my window. Closer observation revealed a perhaps 30-year old, healthy-looking, muscular &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/?p=54310\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Fitzgerald Hinds: Not even aware&#8230;<\/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":[1,30],"tags":[1327,541,49],"class_list":["post-54310","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-tt","category-pnm","tag-facebook","tag-fitzgerald-hinds","tag-tt-govt"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54310","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=54310"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54310\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54314,"href":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54310\/revisions\/54314"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=54310"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=54310"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=54310"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}