{"id":830,"date":"2009-01-08T04:17:05","date_gmt":"2009-01-08T08:17:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/?p=830"},"modified":"2009-01-19T07:16:36","modified_gmt":"2009-01-19T11:16:36","slug":"remembering-jizelle-salandy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/?p=830","title":{"rendered":"Remembering Jizelle Salandy (Giselle Salandy)"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Jizelle Salandy’s Send-Off<\/b><\/big><\/p>\n

TriniView.com Reporters
\nEvent Date: January 07, 2009
\nPosted: January 10, 2009<\/i><\/p>\n

Hundreds of people turned up at the St. Benedict’s Roman Catholic Church in La Romaine to remember and bid farewell to the World Boxing Champion Jizelle Salandy. They came in buses, maxis and cars from all over Trinidad to pay their last respects. Many persons in attendance admitted that they did not know Jizelle personally but her life inspired them in some way.
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\nThere were contingents of young boxers from various boxing gyms, a large contingent of martial artists led by Don Jacob, moko jumbies, many school children in uniform and numerous public personalities including Maximus Dan, Hasely Crawford and double Olympic silver medallist Richard Thompson. Also present were President George Maxwell Richards and his wife Dr. Jean Ramjohn-Richards, Sports Minister Gary Hunt, Culture Minister Marlene McDonald, Legal Affairs Minister Peter Taylor, Opposition MPs Jack Warner and Winston Peters and Ambassador Joan Yuille-Williams.
\nFull Article : triniview.com<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Family and Friends Remember Jizelle Salandy<\/a><\/p>\n

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\nFuneral Service (Click here for more images<\/i>)<\/a><\/div>\n

\nFather Khan challenges TT to be better than Salandy<\/b><\/big><\/p>\n

By Walter Alibey
\nThursday, January 8 2009<\/i><\/p>\n

PARISH Priest of St Benedict\u2019s Roman Catholic Church, Father David Khan, has challenged supporters, family members and friends of Giselle Salandy at her funeral service in La Romaine yesterday to be better than the successful boxer. <\/p>\n

He told the hundreds of mourners that if they claim to love Salandy as has been expressed, then they should show her that they can do better than her.
\nFull Article : newsday.co.tt<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n

Jizelle Salandy’s Homepage on TriniView<\/a><\/b> <\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Funeral Service (Click here for more images) Jizelle Salandy’s Send-Off TriniView.com Reporters Event Date: January 07, 2009 Posted: January 10, 2009 Hundreds of people turned up at the St. Benedict’s Roman Catholic Church in La Romaine to remember and bid farewell to the World Boxing Champion Jizelle Salandy. They came in buses, maxis and cars … Continue reading Remembering Jizelle Salandy (Giselle Salandy)<\/span> →<\/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":[11,1,33,7,12,27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-830","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture","category-general-tt","category-health","category-politics","category-religion","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/830","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=830"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/830\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":887,"href":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/830\/revisions\/887"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=830"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=830"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=830"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}