{"id":7507,"date":"2013-04-30T05:59:23","date_gmt":"2013-04-30T09:59:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/?p=7507"},"modified":"2013-04-30T22:55:00","modified_gmt":"2013-05-01T02:55:00","slug":"suruj-rambachan-dispel-rumors-of-being-racist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/?p=7507","title":{"rendered":"Minister Suruj Rambachan says he is not a racist"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"500\" height=\"315\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/9X3Dyy24q2U\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nA strong dismissal from local government and new Works and Infrastructure Minister Dr. Suruj Rambachan that he is racist. The minister was on the Early Morning Show today where he responded to claims made by his former cabinet colleague last week.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Mrs. Nandini Rambachan and Minister of Works Dr. Surujrattan Rambachan\" src=\"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blogimg\/spmC2605106690.jpg\" border=\"0\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\"><br \/>\n<b>Mrs. Nandini Rambachan and Dr. Surujrattan Rambachan<\/b><\/p>\n<p><big>Minister Dr. Suruj Rambachan offered this rational as proof that he is not a racist:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy house keeper is of African origin and she has been in my house for 22 years. 22 years. 22 years she\u2019s been in my house, brought up my children, cooks my meals every evening on the instructions of my wife.\u201d<\/big><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","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":[1,178,396,7,154,632,142],"tags":[85,104,147,1015,470,49],"class_list":["post-7507","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-tt","category-media","category-peoples-partnership","category-politics","category-race-and-identity","category-racism-watch","category-unc","tag-abuse","tag-african","tag-jack-warner","tag-politics","tag-suruj-rambachan","tag-tt-govt"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7507","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=7507"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7507\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7519,"href":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7507\/revisions\/7519"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7507"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7507"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7507"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}