{"id":8813,"date":"2015-05-07T05:30:59","date_gmt":"2015-05-07T09:30:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/?p=8813"},"modified":"2015-05-08T07:15:20","modified_gmt":"2015-05-08T11:15:20","slug":"rowley-suspended","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/?p=8813","title":{"rendered":"Rowley suspended"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><I>By Clint Chan Tack<br \/>\nThursday, May 7 2015 &#8211; <A HREF=\"http:\/\/www.newsday.co.tt\/news\/0,210773.html\">newsday.co.tt<\/A><\/I><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/?tag=keith-rowley\"><img src='http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blogimg\/rowley5.jpg' width='150' height='100' border='0' class='alignleft' alt='Dr. Keith Rowley' \/><\/a>OPPOSITION Leader Dr Keith Rowley was last night suspended from the House of Representatives after Government used its simple majority to pass a motion to suspend him on the basis of claims he made with respect to the emailgate matter.<\/p>\n<p>The motion was passed in the House at 9.15 pm, by a vote of 24 \u2018for\u2019 to one \u2018against\u2019, hours after Rowley and 11 other People\u2019s National Movement (PNM) MPs walked out of the Parliament Chamber after debate began on a second motion of no confidence against him.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nSan Fernando East MP Patrick Manning was not present, having been granted leave by Speaker Wade Mark from yesterday\u2019s sitting. Foreign Affairs Minister Winston Dookeran and Public Administration Minister Carolyn Seepersad-Bachan were also not present for the vote.<\/p>\n<p>Chaguanas West MP and Independent Liberal Party leader Jack Warner, was the only dissenting vote.<br \/>\n<I><B><A HREF=\"http:\/\/www.newsday.co.tt\/news\/0,210773.html\">Full Article : newsday.co.tt<\/A><\/B><\/I> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Clint Chan Tack Thursday, May 7 2015 &#8211; newsday.co.tt OPPOSITION Leader Dr Keith Rowley was last night suspended from the House of Representatives after Government used its simple majority to pass a motion to suspend him on the basis of claims he made with respect to the emailgate matter. The motion was passed in &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/?p=8813\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Rowley suspended<\/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":[310,1,178,217,396,30,7],"tags":[147,144,60,359,1015,49],"class_list":["post-8813","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-elections-general-tt","category-general-tt","category-media","category-parliament","category-peoples-partnership","category-pnm","category-politics","tag-jack-warner","tag-kamla-persad-bissessar","tag-keith-rowley","tag-newsday","tag-politics","tag-tt-govt"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8813","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=8813"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8813\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8817,"href":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8813\/revisions\/8817"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8813"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8813"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8813"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}