{"id":4766,"date":"2010-12-18T05:25:32","date_gmt":"2010-12-18T09:25:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/?p=4766"},"modified":"2010-12-18T05:29:31","modified_gmt":"2010-12-18T09:29:31","slug":"law-order-and-our-leaders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/?p=4766","title":{"rendered":"Law, order and our leaders"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i>By Dana Seetahal<br \/>\nDecember 18, 2010 &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.trinidadexpress.com\/commentaries\/Law__order_and_our_leaders-112112519.html\">trinidadexpress.com<\/a><\/i><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/?p=4766\"><img src='http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blogimg\/seetahal.jpg' width='150' height='100' border='0' class='alignleft' title='Dana Seetahal' alt='Dana Seetahal' \/><\/a>When I heard Mayor Louis Lee Sing&#8217;s statement that he was going to ask the Port of Spain Magistrate&#8217;s Court to set midnight as the hour that bars must stop selling liquor in St James and Woodbrook I wondered whether he appreciated there was a separation of powers between the judiciary and the executive.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nWhen I read that the Caribbean Airlines board apparently felt that all they needed to do was to keep the line minister informed of their decision relating to the purchase of planes, I was concerned that they appeared not to have read the Uff report which focused on the conduct of another State company. Now I note that the former minister of foreign affairs Paula Gopee-Scoon is unsure that there was a deadline for filing her declaration of Income, Assets and Liabilities with the Integrity Commission for the year 2008.<\/p>\n<p>If people in public life such as these are so seriously ignorant about their powers and\/or functions, what is left for the ordinary man\/woman?<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.trinidadexpress.com\/commentaries\/Law__order_and_our_leaders-112112519.html\">Full Article : trinidadexpress.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Dana Seetahal December 18, 2010 &#8211; trinidadexpress.com When I heard Mayor Louis Lee Sing&#8217;s statement that he was going to ask the Port of Spain Magistrate&#8217;s Court to set midnight as the hour that bars must stop selling liquor in St James and Woodbrook I wondered whether he appreciated there was a separation of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/?p=4766\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Law, order and our leaders<\/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":[1,186,178,566,396,30,7,26],"tags":[85,595,258,198,223,1015,49],"class_list":["post-4766","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-tt","category-law","category-media","category-opposition-party","category-peoples-partnership","category-pnm","category-politics","category-udecott","tag-abuse","tag-caribbean-airlines","tag-dana-seetahal","tag-louis-lee-sing","tag-paula-gopee-scoon","tag-politics","tag-tt-govt"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4766","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=4766"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4766\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4768,"href":"https:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4766\/revisions\/4768"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4766"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4766"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4766"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}