{"id":11617,"date":"2019-04-18T21:54:24","date_gmt":"2019-04-19T01:54:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/?p=11617"},"modified":"2019-04-18T21:54:24","modified_gmt":"2019-04-19T01:54:24","slug":"sats-nasty-attack-on-tobagonians-slammed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/?p=11617","title":{"rendered":"Sat\u2019s nasty attack on Tobagonians slammed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>By Peter Christopher<br \/>\nApril 16, 2019 &#8211; <A HREF=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.tt\/news\/sats-nasty-attack-on-tobagonians-slammed-6.2.826298.62ee7f07ff\">guardian.co.tt<\/A><\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/?tag=sat-maharaj\"><img src='http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blogimg\/satsm.jpg' width='150' height='100' border='0' class='alignleft' alt='Secretary General of the Sanatan Dharma Maha Sabha, Satnarayan Maharaj' \/><\/a>Sanatan Dharma Maha Sabha secretary general Sat Maharaj remained defiant yesterday in the face of a furore over his contentious comments about the people of Tobago and a call from Minority Leader Watson Duke to apologise or face a hate campaign.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI have intentions to respond to Watson Duke and the critics, I will reply at a time of my own choosing and the medium of my own choosing,\u201d Maharaj said when contacted for comment hours after Duke called for an apology.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nMaharaj, however, stood by his statement, saying it was the truth but said his response would come \u201cafter the season of goodwill is over.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Maharaj drew the ire of many after he attacked Tobagonians during on his TV Jagriiti programme on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNothing going correct in Tobago; they\u2019re lazy. Six out of ten of them working for the Tobago House of Assembly, getting money from Port-of-Spain. They don\u2019t want to work, and when they get a job, they go half past nine and 10 o\u2019clock they go for breakfast,\u201d Maharaj said during the programme.<\/p>\n<p>He also suggested that other able-bodied Tobagonians who were lazy preferred to only run crab and goat races and target white women on beaches whom they robbed and raped.<\/p>\n<p>A clip of Maharaj\u2019s comments was soon shared on social media, prompting angered responses on those platforms.<br \/>\n<I><B><A HREF=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.tt\/news\/sats-nasty-attack-on-tobagonians-slammed-6.2.826298.62ee7f07ff\">Full Article : guardian.co.tt<\/A><\/B><\/I><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Peter Christopher April 16, 2019 &#8211; guardian.co.tt Sanatan Dharma Maha Sabha secretary general Sat Maharaj remained defiant yesterday in the face of a furore over his contentious comments about the people of Tobago and a call from Minority Leader Watson Duke to apologise or face a hate campaign. \u201cI have intentions to respond to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/?p=11617\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Sat\u2019s nasty attack on Tobagonians slammed<\/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":[1,1369,632,12],"tags":[834,404,49],"class_list":["post-11617","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-tt","category-hinduism","category-racism-watch","category-religion","tag-guardian","tag-sat-maharaj","tag-tt-govt"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11617","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=11617"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11617\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11618,"href":"https:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11617\/revisions\/11618"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11617"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11617"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11617"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}