{"id":8407,"date":"2014-09-26T03:30:20","date_gmt":"2014-09-26T07:30:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/?p=8407"},"modified":"2014-09-26T03:30:20","modified_gmt":"2014-09-26T07:30:20","slug":"gays-must-wait","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/?p=8407","title":{"rendered":"GAYS MUST WAIT"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><BIG><B>PM hints at referendum to decriminalise homosexuality<\/B><\/BIG><\/p>\n<p><I>By Juhel Browne CCN Senior Multimedia Journalist in New York<br \/>\nSeptember 25, 2014 &#8211; <A HREF=\"http:\/\/www.trinidadexpress.com\/news\/PM-Gay-issue-on-back-burner--277164981.html\">trinidadexpress.com<\/A><\/I><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/?tag=kamla-persad-bissessar\"><img src='http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blogimg\/kamlasm.jpg' width='150' height='100' border='0' class='alignleft' title='Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar' alt='Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar' \/><\/a>Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar says the \u201cdecriminalisation of homosexuality\u201d in Trinidad and Tobago is not something her administration will seek to do because, \u201cit would not be prudent for the Government to proceed in that direction at this time\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s too divided, there\u2019s no consensus on that issue,\u201d Persad-Bissessar said during an interview-styled forum at the Trinidad and Tobago Investment Forum at Pratt House in New York, USA.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nPersad-Bissessar said it is not an issue for the Government to decide at this time but one that \u201cthe people must decide\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd, therefore it may require what is known as a referendum,\u201d Persad-Bissessar said.<\/p>\n<p><A HREF=\"http:\/\/www.trinidadexpress.com\/news\/PM-Gay-issue-on-back-burner--277164981.html\">Full Article : trinidadexpress.com<\/A> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PM hints at referendum to decriminalise homosexuality By Juhel Browne CCN Senior Multimedia Journalist in New York September 25, 2014 &#8211; trinidadexpress.com Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar says the \u201cdecriminalisation of homosexuality\u201d in Trinidad and Tobago is not something her administration will seek to do because, \u201cit would not be prudent for the Government to proceed &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/?p=8407\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">GAYS MUST WAIT<\/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":[6,1,178,396,7,323,25,142],"tags":[44,642,934,144,1015,49],"class_list":["post-8407","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crime","category-general-tt","category-media","category-peoples-partnership","category-politics","category-sex-general-tt","category-sex-crimes","category-unc","tag-crime-in-tt","tag-gays","tag-homosexuality","tag-kamla-persad-bissessar","tag-politics","tag-tt-govt"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8407","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=8407"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8407\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8408,"href":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8407\/revisions\/8408"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8407"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8407"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8407"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}