{"id":2496,"date":"2010-02-08T03:39:01","date_gmt":"2010-02-08T07:39:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/?p=2496"},"modified":"2010-02-09T03:20:07","modified_gmt":"2010-02-09T07:20:07","slug":"hunt-apologises-for-2m-stadium-flag-fiasco","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/?p=2496","title":{"rendered":"Hunt &#8216;apologises&#8217; for $2m flag fiasco"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure style=\"width: 400px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.triniview.com\/gallery\/main.php?g2_itemId=413135\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"$2M flag at the Hasely Crawford Stadium\" src=\"http:\/\/www.triniview.com\/gallery\/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&#038;g2_itemId=413150&#038;g2_serialNumber=1\" title=\"$2M flag at the Hasley Crawford Stadium\" width=\"400\" height=\"267\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">$2M flag at the Hasely Crawford Stadium<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/guardian.co.tt\/news\/politics\/2010\/02\/08\/hunt-2m-flag-misstep\">Hunt: $2m flag a misstep<\/a><br \/>\nSport and Youth Affairs Minister Gary Hunt says the erection of a $2 million flag last year at the Hasely Crawford Stadium off Wrightson Road in Port of Spain was a misstep.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.newsday.co.tt\/news\/0,115471.html\">It was an error<\/a><br \/>\nBURIED in the middle of an address to the nation last night, in which the Government praised itself for all it was doing for the development of sports and young people in the country, came the admission by Sports Minister Gary Hunt that the controversial $2 million flag erected at the Hasely Crawford Stadium, was an &#8220;error&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.trinidadexpress.com\/index.pl\/article_news?id=161592736\">We got it wrong<\/a><br \/>\nHunt apologises for $2m stadium flag fiasco<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hunt: $2m flag a misstep Sport and Youth Affairs Minister Gary Hunt says the erection of a $2 million flag last year at the Hasely Crawford Stadium off Wrightson Road in Port of Spain was a misstep.<\/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":[21,37,30,7,27],"tags":[218,220,49,278],"class_list":["post-2496","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-complaints","category-corruption","category-pnm","category-politics","category-sports","tag-gary-hunt","tag-national-flag","tag-tt-govt","tag-wastage"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2496","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=2496"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2496\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2500,"href":"https:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2496\/revisions\/2500"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2496"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2496"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2496"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}