{"id":55666,"date":"2023-05-15T13:29:02","date_gmt":"2023-05-15T17:29:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/?p=55666"},"modified":"2023-05-15T13:34:39","modified_gmt":"2023-05-15T17:34:39","slug":"rowley-receives-degree-praise-from-us-president","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/?p=55666","title":{"rendered":"Rowley receives degree, praise from US President"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>By Camille Hunte<br \/>\nMay 14, 2023 &#8211; <A HREF=\"https:\/\/trinidadexpress.com\/news\/local\/rowley-receives-degree-praise-from-us-president\/article_a90ed50c-f1f8-11ed-9ba0-b7d23f7dec58.html\">Express<\/A><\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/?p=55666\"><img src='http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blogimg\/K_Rowley_Dr.jpg' width='150' height='100' border='0' class='alignleft' alt='Dr. Keith Rowley' \/><\/a>United States President Joe Biden has congratulated Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley on receiving an honorary degree from Howard University, saying he did not know Rowley was \u201cso talented\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Biden was delivering the feature address at Howard University\u2019s 155th commencement convocation ceremony at the Capital One Arena in Washington, DC, yesterday.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nBoth Biden and Rowley were conferred with honorary Doctor of Letters degrees from the university.<\/p>\n<p>Prior to being presented with his degree, the Prime Minister was described as a \u201crenowned social and political leader, pioneering statesman and scholar\u201d by Howard University president Dr Wayne Frederick.<br \/>\n<i><A HREF=\"https:\/\/trinidadexpress.com\/news\/local\/rowley-receives-degree-praise-from-us-president\/article_a90ed50c-f1f8-11ed-9ba0-b7d23f7dec58.html\">Full Article : trinidadexpress.com<\/A><\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Camille Hunte May 14, 2023 &#8211; Express United States President Joe Biden has congratulated Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley on receiving an honorary degree from Howard University, saying he did not know Rowley was \u201cso talented\u201d. Biden was delivering the feature address at Howard University\u2019s 155th commencement convocation ceremony at the Capital One Arena &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/?p=55666\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Rowley receives degree, praise from US President<\/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],"tags":[60,49],"class_list":["post-55666","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-tt","tag-keith-rowley","tag-tt-govt"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55666","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=55666"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55666\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55668,"href":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55666\/revisions\/55668"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=55666"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=55666"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=55666"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}