{"id":565,"date":"2008-07-31T10:17:40","date_gmt":"2008-07-31T14:17:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/?p=565"},"modified":"2008-07-31T10:17:40","modified_gmt":"2008-07-31T14:17:40","slug":"lee-sing-afro-trinis-dying-over-urp-crumbs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/?p=565","title":{"rendered":"Lee Sing: Afro-Trinis dying over URP crumbs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i>Thursday, July 31st 2008<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.trinidadexpress.com\/index.pl\/article_news?id=161358476\">trinidadexpress.com<\/a><\/i><\/p>\n<p><img src='http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blogimg\/emancipation.jpg' width='150' height='100' border='0' class='alignleft' alt='Emancipation' \/>The people who could have potentially been leaders of local African communities have failed Afro-Trinidadians and Tobagonians, says National Lotteries Control Board (NLCB) chairman and radio station owner Louis Lee Sing. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This group of successful Afro-Trinbagonian(s) see themselves as Trinidadians and nothing else. The plight of the less fortunate of his race do not matter,&#8221; he commented.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nDelivering an address to the Eastern Emancipation Cultural Committee, Sangre Grande, on Tuesday, Lee Sing said the country&#8217;s African leaders have been killed one by one over the last few months, referring to the 20 &#8220;community leaders&#8221; who attempted to broker a so-called peace treaty in 2006.<br \/>\n<b><a href=\"http:\/\/www.trinidadexpress.com\/index.pl\/article_news?id=161358476\" title=\"Lee Sing: Afro-Trinis dying over URP crumbs\">Full Article : trinidadexpress.com<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thursday, July 31st 2008 trinidadexpress.com The people who could have potentially been leaders of local African communities have failed Afro-Trinidadians and Tobagonians, says National Lotteries Control Board (NLCB) chairman and radio station owner Louis Lee Sing. &#8220;This group of successful Afro-Trinbagonian(s) see themselves as Trinidadians and nothing else. The plight of the less fortunate of &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/?p=565\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Lee Sing: Afro-Trinis dying over URP crumbs<\/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":[11,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-565","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture","category-general-tt"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/565","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=565"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/565\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=565"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=565"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=565"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}