{"id":54481,"date":"2021-03-06T13:30:32","date_gmt":"2021-03-06T17:30:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/?p=54481"},"modified":"2021-03-06T14:08:40","modified_gmt":"2021-03-06T18:08:40","slug":"a-passage-to-india","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/?p=54481","title":{"rendered":"A passage to India"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Newsday Editorial<br \/>\nMarch 05, 2021 &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/newsday.co.tt\/2021\/03\/05\/a-passage-to-india\/\">newsday.co.tt<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/newsday.co.tt\/2021\/03\/05\/a-passage-to-india\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blogimg\/covidVindia.jpg\" alt=\"COVID-19 Vaccine\" width=\"150\" height=\"100\" border=\"0\"><\/a>IN ALL the recent instances of wrangling over vaccines from India, a key issue has been left unaddressed.<\/p>\n<p>The heated reactions to both Health Minister Terrence Deyalsingh\u2019s mischaracterisation of the custody chain of vaccines donated by Barbados and Opposition Leader Kamla Persad-Bissessar\u2019s letter to the Indian Prime Minister have deflected attention from a more profound diplomatic quandary which this country faces \u2013 as well as Caricom as a whole.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nLast month, Mr Deyalsingh apologised after wrongly stating 2,000 jabs donated by Barbados had come from India. Those vaccines were, in fact, a gift from Barbados. India had donated 100,000 vaccines to Barbados, and out of these, Barbados donated 2,000 to this country.<br \/>\n<em><a href=\"https:\/\/newsday.co.tt\/2021\/03\/05\/a-passage-to-india\/\">Full Article : newsday.co.tt<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Statement of the High Commission of India in Port of Spain on &#8220;A Passage to India&#8221; Editorial of T&amp;T Newsday of 5 March, 2021.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/IndiaInTnT\/posts\/3460097427433661<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blogimg\/Indiaresponds.jpeg\" alt=\"Statement of the High Commission of India in Port of Spain on 'A Passage to India'\" width=\"828\" height=\"1280\" border=\"0\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Newsday Editorial March 05, 2021 &#8211; newsday.co.tt IN ALL the recent instances of wrangling over vaccines from India, a key issue has been left unaddressed. The heated reactions to both Health Minister Terrence Deyalsingh\u2019s mischaracterisation of the custody chain of vaccines donated by Barbados and Opposition Leader Kamla Persad-Bissessar\u2019s letter to the Indian Prime Minister &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/?p=54481\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">A passage to India<\/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":[17,1524,1,33,1369],"tags":[1476,359,1525],"class_list":["post-54481","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-caribbean","category-covid-19","category-general-tt","category-health","category-hinduism","tag-covid-19","tag-newsday","tag-vaccine"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54481","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=54481"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54481\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54486,"href":"https:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54481\/revisions\/54486"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=54481"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=54481"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=54481"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}