{"id":4244,"date":"2010-09-02T10:45:15","date_gmt":"2010-09-02T14:45:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/?p=4244"},"modified":"2010-10-02T07:53:54","modified_gmt":"2010-10-02T11:53:54","slug":"independence-awards-and-fireworks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/?p=4244","title":{"rendered":"Independence Awards and Fireworks"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Minister
Minister of Arts and Multiculturalism Winston 'Gypsy' Peters and Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar observe the Independence fireworks display from the Hilton rooftop<\/figcaption><\/figure>
\n
\"Former
Former govt minister Kamalludin Mohammed receives the
\nhighest national award, the Order of the Republic of T&T<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/p>\n
\"Cultural
Cultural icons Peter Minshall and Pat Bishop at the reception of the Independence Awards at Queen's Hall<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Secretary
Secretary General of the Sanatan Dharma Maha Sabha, Sat Maharaj and Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar engage in a chat at the Independence Awards reception at Queen's Hall<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Minister
Minister of Arts and Multiculturalism Winston 'Gypsy' Peters, Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar and Minister of Works and Transport Jack Warner on the Hilton rooftop observing Independence Day fireworks<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

September 2, 2010<\/b><\/p>\n

Fireworks light up QP Savannah<\/a>
\nFIREWORKS lit up the Port-of-Spain sky above the Queen’s Park Savannah on the night of Independence Day when Firepower Fireworks in collaboration with Newsday, IETV Channel 1 and Stega Engineering presented a spectacle entitled “A gift to the nation”.<\/p>\n

Independence Day peace walk in Belmont<\/a><\/p>\n

September 1, 2010<\/b><\/p>\n

Crowds welcome parade back to Savannah<\/a><\/p>\n

Sat Maharaj slams award for Kamal<\/a>
\nMOMENTS after receiving the nation’s second highest award, Secretary General of the Sanatan Dharma Maha Sabha, Sat Maharaj, strongly criticised the People’s National Movement (PNM), claiming the former government had suppressed Indian culture in this country. <\/p>\n

…Ex-MP puzzled<\/a>
\nFormer Cabinet Minister Kamaluddin Mohammed says he has no clue as to why Secretary General of the Sanatan Dharma Maha Sabha, Sat Maharaj, has objected to him receiving the nation’s highest award\u2014 the Order of the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago. <\/p>\n

August 31, 2010<\/b><\/p>\n

List of National Awardees<\/a><\/p>\n

Pantins happy with award for Dennis<\/a>
\nJournalist Raoul Pantin, brother of late economist Dennis Pantin, says the family is happy he will be recognised for his contribution to economic development.<\/p>\n

Kamal deserves Order of T&T<\/a>
\nOpposition Leader Dr Keith Rowley says former government minister Kamalludin Mohammed deserves to be presented with this country’s highest national award, the Order of the Republic of T&T.<\/p>\n

Why Kamal and Wahid Ali?<\/a>
\nSecretary General of the Sanatan Dharma Maha Sabha Sat Maharaj is upset over the award of this country’s highest national award, the Order of the Republic of T&T to former government minister Kamaluddin Mohammed and former senate president Dr Wahid Ali.<\/p>\n

…Kamal hails Kamla: Lady with a vision<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","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":[11,1,396,295,7],"tags":[535,147,144,1015,536],"class_list":["post-4244","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture","category-general-tt","category-peoples-partnership","category-photos","category-politics","tag-independence-awards","tag-jack-warner","tag-kamla-persad-bissessar","tag-politics","tag-winston-gypsy-peters"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4244","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=4244"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4244\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4427,"href":"https:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4244\/revisions\/4427"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4244"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4244"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4244"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}