{"id":605,"date":"2008-09-16T05:21:54","date_gmt":"2008-09-16T09:21:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/?p=605"},"modified":"2008-09-16T05:23:48","modified_gmt":"2008-09-16T09:23:48","slug":"daly-questions-illegal-rally","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/?p=605","title":{"rendered":"Daly Questions &#8216;Illegal&#8217; Rally"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><big><b>PM wrong to take part<\/b><\/big><\/p>\n<p><i>By Ria Taitt Political Editor<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.trinidadexpress.com\/index.pl\/article_news?id=161376399\">trinidadexpress.com<\/a><\/i><\/p>\n<p><img src='http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blogimg\/pnm.jpg' width='150' height='100' border='0' class='alignleft' alt='PNM' \/>President of the Law Association, Senior Counsel Martin Daly, yesterday criticised Prime Minister Patrick Manning&#8217;s participation in a &#8216;march&#8217; last Friday at Woodford Square, Port of Spain. <\/p>\n<p>Daly raised the question of whether the Prime Minister had committed a criminal offence.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nStressing that he was dealing with principle and not politics or personalities, Daly said he &#8220;genuinely believed&#8221; the Woodford Square &#8216;public march&#8217; sent the wrong message. And, more importantly, &#8220;the authorities&#8221; put the Commissioner of Police in a &#8220;very, very awkward position&#8221;. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The upshot of this is that other groups would simply say &#8216;we are having a cultural show&#8217; and they would turn up and the moment you move against them, they would say &#8216;that is not fair,'&#8221; Daly said. <\/p>\n<p>Daly said, according to Summary Offences Act, one is obliged to notify the Commissioner of Police if one is going to have a public meeting. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If you don&#8217;t, it is an offence,&#8221; he said. <\/p>\n<p><b><a href=\"http:\/\/www.trinidadexpress.com\/index.pl\/article_news?id=161376399\" title=\"PM wrong to take part\">Full Article : trinidadexpress.com<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PM wrong to take part By Ria Taitt Political Editor trinidadexpress.com President of the Law Association, Senior Counsel Martin Daly, yesterday criticised Prime Minister Patrick Manning&#8217;s participation in a &#8216;march&#8217; last Friday at Woodford Square, Port of Spain. Daly raised the question of whether the Prime Minister had committed a criminal offence.<\/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":[6,11,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-605","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crime","category-culture","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/605","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=605"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/605\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=605"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=605"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=605"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}