{"id":2574,"date":"2010-02-27T05:39:35","date_gmt":"2010-02-27T09:39:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/?p=2574"},"modified":"2010-02-27T05:49:14","modified_gmt":"2010-02-27T09:49:14","slug":"kamla-ascending-panday-prefers-back-bench","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/?p=2574","title":{"rendered":"Kamla&#8217;s First Day in Parliament as Opposition Leader"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure style=\"width: 400px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.triniview.com\/gallery\/main.php?g2_itemId=436795\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Kamla's First Day in Parliament as Opposition Leader - Panday prefers back bench\" src=\"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blogimg\/kamla260210.jpg\" title=\"Kamla's First Day in Parliament as Opposition Leader - Panday prefers back bench\" width=\"400\" height=\"267\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kamla's First Day in Parliament as Opposition Leader<\/figcaption><\/figure><a href=\"http:\/\/guardian.co.tt\/news\/politics\/2010\/02\/27\/pnm-salutes-bas-house\">PNM salutes Bas in House<\/a><br \/>\nFormer Opposition Leader Basdeo Panday yesterday defied the order of UNC chief whip Jack Warner and stuck to his word to occupy a backbench seat in the Parliament yesterday.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.newsday.co.tt\/politics\/0,116447.html\">Bas disappoints Kamla<\/a><br \/>\nFORMER Opposition Leader, Couva North MP Basdeo Panday, sat on the Opposition back- bench yesterday, ignoring a call by his successor Kamla Persad-Bissessar to stay on the front bench next to her.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.trinidadexpress.com\/index.pl\/article_news?id=161601277\">Panday prefers back bench<\/a><br \/>\nFormer opposition leader Basdeo Panday yesterday sat on the Opposition back bench of the Parliament and received more warmth and recognition from the PNM, including from Prime Minister Patrick Manning, than from his own MPs. And history was created as UNC Political Leader Kamla Persad-Bissessar occupied the seat of the Opposition Leader in the House. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.trinidadexpress.com\/index.pl\/article_opinion?id=161601219\">Kamla ascending<\/a><br \/>\nKAMLA Persad-Bissessar&#8217;s appointment this week as Leader of the Opposition has rightly been hailed by business and professional groups, as well as by ordinary citizens as an achievement, a special moment in the country&#8217;s continuing development. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PNM salutes Bas in House Former Opposition Leader Basdeo Panday yesterday defied the order of UNC chief whip Jack Warner and stuck to his word to occupy a backbench seat in the Parliament yesterday. Bas disappoints Kamla FORMER Opposition Leader, Couva North MP Basdeo Panday, sat on the Opposition back- bench yesterday, ignoring a call &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/?p=2574\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Kamla&#8217;s First Day in Parliament as Opposition Leader<\/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":[1,217,7,142],"tags":[140,147,144,1037],"class_list":["post-2574","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-tt","category-parliament","category-politics","category-unc","tag-basdeo-panday","tag-jack-warner","tag-kamla-persad-bissessar","tag-unc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2574","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=2574"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2574\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2581,"href":"https:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2574\/revisions\/2581"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2574"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2574"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2574"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}