{"id":54639,"date":"2021-07-11T18:36:05","date_gmt":"2021-07-11T22:36:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/?p=54639"},"modified":"2021-07-11T18:36:05","modified_gmt":"2021-07-11T22:36:05","slug":"perks-of-unequal-sacrifice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/?p=54639","title":{"rendered":"Perks of unequal sacrifice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/?p=54639\"><img src='http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blogimg\/expresseditorial.jpg' width='150' height='113' border='0' class='alignleft' alt='Express Editorial' \/><\/a>IN engaging in counter-accusations and whataboutisms, Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley is missing the point of the public\u2019s annoyance over ministerial tax exemptions.<\/p>\n<p>On the principle that two wrongs don\u2019t make a right, his Government does not get a free pass from public criticism just because former ministers in the Kamla Persad-Bissessar administration are accused of various acts of corruption. The two are separate and one does not justify the other.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nIn citing an editorial written by this newspaper last October, Dr Rowley took issue with the fact that we have not been calling out opposition figures who are facing numerous matters in court.<br \/>\n<em><A HREF=\"https:\/\/trinidadexpress.com\/opinion\/editorials\/perks-of-unequal-sacrifice\/article_d35e5912-e1e8-11eb-b7d8-43972b5b3ca4.html\">Full Article : trinidadexpress.com<\/A><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>IN engaging in counter-accusations and whataboutisms, Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley is missing the point of the public\u2019s annoyance over ministerial tax exemptions. On the principle that two wrongs don\u2019t make a right, his Government does not get a free pass from public criticism just because former ministers in the Kamla Persad-Bissessar administration are accused &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/?p=54639\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Perks of unequal sacrifice<\/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":[720,1,30,7,142],"tags":[85,610,60,49],"class_list":["post-54639","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-editorial","category-general-tt","category-pnm","category-politics","category-unc","tag-abuse","tag-express","tag-keith-rowley","tag-tt-govt"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54639","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=54639"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54639\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54640,"href":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54639\/revisions\/54640"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=54639"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=54639"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=54639"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}