{"id":9545,"date":"2016-06-15T11:30:02","date_gmt":"2016-06-15T15:30:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/?p=9545"},"modified":"2016-06-15T11:30:02","modified_gmt":"2016-06-15T15:30:02","slug":"pnm-rallies-around-ali","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/?p=9545","title":{"rendered":"PNM rallies around Ali"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><I>By Clint Chan Tack<br \/>\nJune 15, 2016 &#8211; <A HREF=\"http:\/\/www.newsday.co.tt\/news\/0,229217.html\">newsday.co.tt<\/A><\/I><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/?p=9545\"><img src='http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blogimg\/hali.jpg' width='150' height='100' border='0' class='alignleft' alt='Hafeez Ali' \/><\/a>THE ruling People\u2019s National Movement (PNM) yesterday demonstrated unwavering support for former government senator Hafeez Ali, who resigned from his post after being blackmailed by a woman from North America who posted nude videos of him on YouTube. Ali is the first Government Senator to resign since the PNM won the September 7, general election.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nThrough party chairman Franklin Khan and party deputy leader Rohan Sinanan (who replaces Ali in the Senate), the PNM declared it would provide its fullest support to Ali and this matter would not have any negative repercussions on the ruling party whatsoever.<br \/>\n<I><A HREF=\"http:\/\/www.newsday.co.tt\/news\/0,229217.html\">Full Article : newsday.co.tt<\/A><\/I> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Clint Chan Tack June 15, 2016 &#8211; newsday.co.tt THE ruling People\u2019s National Movement (PNM) yesterday demonstrated unwavering support for former government senator Hafeez Ali, who resigned from his post after being blackmailed by a woman from North America who posted nude videos of him on YouTube. Ali is the first Government Senator to resign &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/?p=9545\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">PNM rallies around Ali<\/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":[6,178,30,7,12,323],"tags":[85,1183,359,1015,49],"class_list":["post-9545","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crime","category-media","category-pnm","category-politics","category-religion","category-sex-general-tt","tag-abuse","tag-hafeez-ali","tag-newsday","tag-politics","tag-tt-govt"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9545","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=9545"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9545\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9546,"href":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9545\/revisions\/9546"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9545"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9545"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9545"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}