{"id":10347,"date":"2017-11-16T11:55:14","date_gmt":"2017-11-16T15:55:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/?p=10347"},"modified":"2017-11-16T11:55:14","modified_gmt":"2017-11-16T15:55:14","slug":"jearlean-for-deputy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/?p=10347","title":{"rendered":"JEARLEAN FOR DEPUTY"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><BIG><B>Fired HDC head on Kamla\u2019s slate<\/B><\/BIG><\/p>\n<p><I>By Stacy Moore<br \/>\nNovember 16, 2017 &#8211; <A HREF=\"http:\/\/newsday.co.tt\/2017\/11\/16\/jearlean-for-deputy\/\">newsday.co.tt<\/A><\/I><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/?p=10347\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blogimg\/jearlean_john.jpg\" alt=\"Jearlean John\" width=\"150\" height=\"100\" border=\"0\"><\/a>Fired Housing Development Corporation (HDC) Managing Director Jearlean John yesterday filed nomination papers to contest the post of UNC political leader in the party\u2019s November 26 internal election.<\/p>\n<p>At first it was thought John, who was Transport Minister during the Basdeo Panday administration, was merely supporting UNC political leader Kamla Persad-Bissessar by walking with her as she (Persad-Bissessar) entered the party\u2019s Couva headquarters to file nomination papers shortly after 3pm. However, John presented her own nomination papers to the party\u2019s election officer Dr Rampersad Parasram.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nBoth women, dressed in the party\u2019s bright yellow colours were greeted by an entourage of supporters waving flags and dancing to the beat of tassa drums.<br \/>\n<I><A HREF=\"http:\/\/newsday.co.tt\/2017\/11\/16\/jearlean-for-deputy\/\">Full Article : newsday.co.tt<\/A><\/I><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fired HDC head on Kamla\u2019s slate By Stacy Moore November 16, 2017 &#8211; newsday.co.tt Fired Housing Development Corporation (HDC) Managing Director Jearlean John yesterday filed nomination papers to contest the post of UNC political leader in the party\u2019s November 26 internal election. At first it was thought John, who was Transport Minister during the Basdeo &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/?p=10347\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">JEARLEAN FOR DEPUTY<\/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":[310,1,178,7,142],"tags":[636,144,359,1015],"class_list":["post-10347","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-elections-general-tt","category-general-tt","category-media","category-politics","category-unc","tag-jearlean-john","tag-kamla-persad-bissessar","tag-newsday","tag-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10347","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10347"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10347\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10348,"href":"https:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10347\/revisions\/10348"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10347"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10347"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10347"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}