{"id":9540,"date":"2016-06-12T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2016-06-12T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/?p=9540"},"modified":"2016-06-23T23:48:51","modified_gmt":"2016-06-24T03:48:51","slug":"caiso-head-ccj-ruling-good-for-gays","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/?p=9540","title":{"rendered":"CAISO head: CCJ ruling good for gays"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><I>By Julien Neaves<br \/>\nJune 12, 2016 &#8211; <A HREF=\"http:\/\/www.newsday.co.tt\/crime_and_court\/0,229083.html\">newsday.co.tt<\/A><\/I><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/?tag=sex\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Gays\" src=\"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blogimg\/gay.jpg\" title=\"Gays\" class=\"alignleft\" width=\"150\" height=\"100\" \/><\/a>On Friday, EXECUTIVE director of the Coalition Advocating for Inclusion of Sexual Orientation (CAISO), Colin Robinson, said the ruling by the Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) on the Maurice Tomlinson case allows homosexuals free movement in Caricom is \u201cgood news\u201d, but it also leaves them as \u201cunapprehended outlaws\u201d.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nRobinson was responding to the ruling yesterday in the Tomlinson case as the gay rights activist challenged the immigration laws of Trinidad and Tobago and Belize prohibiting entry of homosexuals. The CCJ dismissed his case saying he could not have been prejudiced as the Immigration Department does not apply the prohibition and also that the practice of admitting homosexuals of other Caricom states is not a matter of discretion but is legally required.<\/p>\n<p>Robinson, speaking yesterday, said it would take some time to analyse the judgment and his comments are \u201cjust initial\u201d.<br \/>\n<I><A HREF=\"http:\/\/www.newsday.co.tt\/crime_and_court\/0,229083.html\">Full Article : newsday.co.tt<\/A><\/I><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Julien Neaves June 12, 2016 &#8211; newsday.co.tt On Friday, EXECUTIVE director of the Coalition Advocating for Inclusion of Sexual Orientation (CAISO), Colin Robinson, said the ruling by the Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) on the Maurice Tomlinson case allows homosexuals free movement in Caricom is \u201cgood news\u201d, but it also leaves them as \u201cunapprehended &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/?p=9540\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">CAISO head: CCJ ruling good for gays<\/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":[463,6,291,1,178,323],"tags":[1182,642,1181,359,1180],"class_list":["post-9540","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-court","category-crime","category-gender","category-general-tt","category-media","category-sex-general-tt","tag-caiso","tag-gays","tag-homosexuals","tag-newsday","tag-same-sex"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9540","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=9540"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9540\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9574,"href":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9540\/revisions\/9574"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9540"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9540"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9540"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}