{"id":8772,"date":"2015-04-14T08:58:00","date_gmt":"2015-04-14T12:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/?p=8772"},"modified":"2015-04-14T08:59:56","modified_gmt":"2015-04-14T12:59:56","slug":"before-vernellas-vile-bile","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/?p=8772","title":{"rendered":"Before Vernella\u2019s vile bile"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><I>By Keith Subero<br \/>\nApril 14, 2015 &#8211; <A HREF=\"http:\/\/www.trinidadexpress.com\/commentaries\/Before-Vernellas-vile-bile-299517871.html\">trinidadexpress.com<\/A><\/I><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/?p=8772\"><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>Yes, Minister Vernella Alleyne-Toppin\u2019s contribution in the House caused the UNC Government\u2019s no-confidence motion against the Opposition Leader to implode\u2014rather than explode, as planned.<\/p>\n<p>Yes, Minister Alleyne-Toppin offended our collective sensibilities, and we remain offended, probably more so because the Speaker allowed the House to be reduced to the Minister\u2019s barrackyard gossip.<\/p>\n<p>Yes, other political minutiae\u2014such as the recent Express poll which rates the Prime Minister, in spite of her Government\u2019s daily mis-steps, as being more popular than the Opposition Leader\u2014are now occupying our attention.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nSo, in the coming weeks, the PM\u2019s handlers will strategise to shift your attention away from such issues as falling oil prices, the economy, widespread Government corruption and the Central Bank\u2019s questionable management of our foreign exchange reserves.<br \/>\n<B><A HREF=\"http:\/\/www.trinidadexpress.com\/commentaries\/Before-Vernellas-vile-bile-299517871.html\">Full Article : trinidadexpress.com<\/A><\/B><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Keith Subero April 14, 2015 &#8211; trinidadexpress.com Yes, Minister Vernella Alleyne-Toppin\u2019s contribution in the House caused the UNC Government\u2019s no-confidence motion against the Opposition Leader to implode\u2014rather than explode, as planned. Yes, Minister Alleyne-Toppin offended our collective sensibilities, and we remain offended, probably more so because the Speaker allowed the House to be reduced &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/?p=8772\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Before Vernella\u2019s vile bile<\/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":[37,1,178,396,142],"tags":[85,610,144,940,1015,49,756],"class_list":["post-8772","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-corruption","category-general-tt","category-media","category-peoples-partnership","category-unc","tag-abuse","tag-express","tag-kamla-persad-bissessar","tag-keith-subero","tag-politics","tag-tt-govt","tag-vernella-alleyne-toppin"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8772","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=8772"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8772\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8774,"href":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8772\/revisions\/8774"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8772"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8772"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8772"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}