{"id":8409,"date":"2014-09-28T10:53:09","date_gmt":"2014-09-28T14:53:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/?p=8409"},"modified":"2014-09-28T10:53:09","modified_gmt":"2014-09-28T14:53:09","slug":"rowley-blasts-tt-support-of-un-security-resolution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/?p=8409","title":{"rendered":"Rowley blasts TT support of UN security resolution"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><I>Sunday, September 28 2014<br \/>\n<A HREF=\"http:\/\/www.newsday.co.tt\/news\/0,200944.html\">www.newsday.co.tt<\/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>Opposition Leader Dr Keith Rowley yesterday lambasted Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar for Trinidad and Tobago\u2019s co-sponsorship of a United Nations Security Council resolution on the fight against terrorism saying it was best for TT to have passed up on the occasion.<\/p>\n<p>TT cannot afford to declare war on terrorists \u201cat a time when you can stay away, \u201d Rowley said.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nThe resolution, supported by over 90 countries on Wednesday, was put to the UN Security Council by US President Barrack Obama in New York.<\/p>\n<p>Rowley addressed constituents last evening at the People\u2019s National Movement St Ann\u2019s East Constituency annual conference at the San Juan North Secondary School in Bourg Mulatresse on a range of issues.<\/p>\n<p>On the issue of TT supporting the resolution in the fight against terrorism, Rowley said \u201cin any international issue, you put Trinidad and Tobago interest first.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>When people behead someone \u201clittle Trinidad and Tobago has to be careful to walk among the gears and don\u2019t get crushed,\u201d he said. He said when the backlash comes from TT\u2019s sponsorship \u201cthey (current administration) know they will not be here to take it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In his hour-long address, Rowley never addressed the issue of Thursday night\u2019s shootings in Laventille in which three men were killed and two others injured, and a subsequent shooting attack on the Besson Street Police.<\/p>\n<p><I>Source: <A HREF=\"http:\/\/www.newsday.co.tt\/news\/0,200944.html\">www.newsday.co.tt\/news\/0,200944.html<\/A><\/I><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sunday, September 28 2014 www.newsday.co.tt Opposition Leader Dr Keith Rowley yesterday lambasted Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar for Trinidad and Tobago\u2019s co-sponsorship of a United Nations Security Council resolution on the fight against terrorism saying it was best for TT to have passed up on the occasion. TT cannot afford to declare war on terrorists \u201cat &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/?p=8409\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Rowley blasts TT support of UN security resolution<\/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":[6,1,5,396,7,39],"tags":[144,60,1015,49,474],"class_list":["post-8409","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crime","category-general-tt","category-international","category-peoples-partnership","category-politics","category-usa","tag-kamla-persad-bissessar","tag-keith-rowley","tag-politics","tag-tt-govt","tag-terrorism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8409","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=8409"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8409\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8410,"href":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8409\/revisions\/8410"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8409"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8409"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8409"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}