{"id":5926,"date":"2011-12-07T03:51:12","date_gmt":"2011-12-07T07:51:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/?p=5926"},"modified":"2011-12-08T17:56:46","modified_gmt":"2011-12-08T21:56:46","slug":"us-big-stick-for-raul","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/?p=5926","title":{"rendered":"US Bans Hilton Hotel from Hosting Castro"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><big><strong>US BIG STICK FOR RAUL<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><b>Hilton blocked from hosting Caricom conference attended by Cuban president<\/b><\/big><\/p>\n<p><i>By Julien Neaves<br \/>\nDecember 07, 2011 &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.trinidadexpress.com\/news\/US_BIG_STICK_FOR_RAUL-135145443.html\">trinidadexpress.com<\/a><\/i><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/?p=5926\"><img src='http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blogimg\/raulcastro.jpg' width='150' height='113' border='0' class='alignleft' alt='Ra\u00fal Castro' \/><\/a>US-BASED hotel chain Hilton Worldwide has been denied a special licence from the US Government to allow for the IV Caricom\/Cuba Summit to be held at the Hilton Trinidad and Conference Centre with visiting Cuban President Raul Castro.<\/p>\n<p>The two-day summit, which starts today, will instead be held at the National Academy for the Performing Arts (NAPA) in Port of Spain.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nCastro, who arrives in Trinidad and Tobago this morning and leaves on Friday, will be staying at the Kapok Hotel, St Clair, though according to officials at the Foreign Affairs Ministry and the Cuban Embassy, this was his original accommodation.<br \/>\n<i><b><a href=\"http:\/\/www.trinidadexpress.com\/news\/US_BIG_STICK_FOR_RAUL-135145443.html\">Full Article :  trinidadexpress.com<\/a><\/b><\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US BIG STICK FOR RAUL Hilton blocked from hosting Caricom conference attended by Cuban president By Julien Neaves December 07, 2011 &#8211; trinidadexpress.com US-BASED hotel chain Hilton Worldwide has been denied a special licence from the US Government to allow for the IV Caricom\/Cuba Summit to be held at the Hilton Trinidad and Conference Centre &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/?p=5926\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">US Bans Hilton Hotel from Hosting Castro<\/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":[17,119,45,1,5,7,39],"tags":[1035,719,107,49,1026],"class_list":["post-5926","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-caribbean","category-caricom","category-cuba","category-general-tt","category-international","category-politics","category-usa","tag-caricom","tag-cuba-caricom-summit","tag-raul-castro","tag-tt-govt","tag-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5926","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=5926"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5926\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5936,"href":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5926\/revisions\/5936"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5926"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5926"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5926"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}