{"id":8724,"date":"2015-03-28T14:07:01","date_gmt":"2015-03-28T18:07:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/?p=8724"},"modified":"2015-03-28T14:49:36","modified_gmt":"2015-03-28T18:49:36","slug":"pm-accepts-vernellas-apology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/?p=8724","title":{"rendered":"PM accepts Vernella&#8217;s apology"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>By Anna Ramdass<br \/>\nMarch 28, 2015 &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.trinidadexpress.com\/news\/PM-accepts-Vernellas-apology-297880511.html\">trinidadexpress.com<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/?p=8724\"><img src='http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blogimg\/toppin270315.jpg' width='243' height='203' border='0' class='alignleft' alt='Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar and Vernella Alleyne-Toppin' \/><\/a>Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar said last night that she too condemns the controversial statements made by Tobago East MP Vernella Alleyne-Toppin but she has also accepted her apology.<\/p>\n<p>Said Persad-Bissessar: &#8221; I would like to add my voice to the voices of concern and condemnation for parts of the statement that the honourable Minister made and so I want to make that point up front.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Persad-Bissessar said she expressed this to Alleyne-Toppin &#8220;directly&#8221;.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\n&#8220;I&#8217;ve also noted her apology and I accept her apology at this time,&#8221; said Persad-Bissessar.<br \/>\n<em><A HREF=\"http:\/\/www.trinidadexpress.com\/news\/PM-accepts-Vernellas-apology-297880511.html\">Full Article : trinidadexpress.com<\/A><\/em> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Anna Ramdass March 28, 2015 &#8211; trinidadexpress.com Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar said last night that she too condemns the controversial statements made by Tobago East MP Vernella Alleyne-Toppin but she has also accepted her apology. Said Persad-Bissessar: &#8221; I would like to add my voice to the voices of concern and condemnation for parts &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/?p=8724\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">PM accepts Vernella&#8217;s apology<\/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":[310,1,178,566,217,396,30,7,142],"tags":[85,144,60,1015,49,756],"class_list":["post-8724","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-elections-general-tt","category-general-tt","category-media","category-opposition-party","category-parliament","category-peoples-partnership","category-pnm","category-politics","category-unc","tag-abuse","tag-kamla-persad-bissessar","tag-keith-rowley","tag-politics","tag-tt-govt","tag-vernella-alleyne-toppin"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8724","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=8724"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8724\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8727,"href":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8724\/revisions\/8727"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8724"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8724"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8724"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}