{"id":240,"date":"2007-05-10T02:02:39","date_gmt":"2007-05-10T06:02:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/?p=240"},"modified":"2007-05-10T08:00:42","modified_gmt":"2007-05-10T12:00:42","slug":"elton-got-special-permit-for-jazz-fest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/?p=240","title":{"rendered":"Elton got &#8216;special permit&#8217; for jazz fest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blogimg\/eltonjohn.jpg\" width=\"150\" height=\"113\" border=\"0\" align=\"left\" alt=\"Elton John\">Sir Elton John had to be granted a special permit to enter Trinidad and Tobago for last month&#8217;s CL Financial Plymouth Jazz Festival because the pop star is openly gay.<\/p>\n<p>A group of Tobago-based pastors referred to Section 8 (E) of the Prohibition Class of the Immigration Act, which states that the following should not be allowed on local shores:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;&#8230;Prostitutes, homosexuals or persons living on the earnings of prostitutes or homosexuals, or persons reasonably suspected as coming to Trinidad and Tobago for these and any other immoral purposes&#8230;&#8221;<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.trinidadexpress.com\/index.pl\/article_news?id=161143888\" title=\"Elton got 'special permit' for jazz fest\">Full Article : trinidadexpress.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>Should Trinidad and Tobago do away with this law?<\/b><\/p>\n<p>On a radio poll this morning, 61% of the callers said that the law should remain and 39% said that law should be repealed. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sir Elton John had to be granted a special permit to enter Trinidad and Tobago for last month&#8217;s CL Financial Plymouth Jazz Festival because the pop star is openly gay. A group of Tobago-based pastors referred to Section 8 (E) of the Prohibition Class of the Immigration Act, which states that the following should not &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/?p=240\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Elton got &#8216;special permit&#8217; for jazz fest<\/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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-240","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-tt"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240","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=240"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=240"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=240"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=240"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}