{"id":8603,"date":"2015-02-02T02:04:27","date_gmt":"2015-02-02T06:04:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/?p=8603"},"modified":"2015-02-02T23:59:26","modified_gmt":"2015-02-03T03:59:26","slug":"griffith-threatens-to-walk-ag-to-resign","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/?p=8603","title":{"rendered":"Griffith threatens to walk &#8211; AG to resign"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img src='http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blogimg\/anandgarydavid.jpg' width='450' height='200' border='0' alt='Anand Ramlogan, Gary Griffith, David West' \/><\/p>\n<p><big><b>Griffith threatens to walk<\/b><\/big><\/p>\n<p><i>By Renuka Singh<br \/>\nFebruary 02, 2015 &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.tt\/news\/2015-02-02\/griffith-threatens-walk\">guardian.co.tt<\/a><\/i><\/p>\n<p>National Security Minister Gary Griffith is threatening to quit in the face of scathing press release issued by Communication Minister Vasant Bharath yesterday accused him of making false claims and compromising the integrity of Cabinet.  Bharath was referring to reports that Griffith claimed he was pressured by his Cabinet colleagues not support a criminal complaint by Police Complaints Authority Director David West.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\n<big><b>AG to resign &#8230;Lalla tipped for job<\/b><\/big><\/p>\n<p>Attorney General Anand Ramlogan is set to resign today and attorney Larry Lalla is expected to be sworn in. The Cabinet change will take place before Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar makes her much anticipated announcement at 4 pm.<\/p>\n<p>According to the Constitution, Cabinet must be made up of the Prime Minister and the Attorney General, so once Ramlogan steps down, Lalla would have to be signed in immediately in order to uphold the Constitutional description of what constitutes a government.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.tt\/news\/2015-02-02\/griffith-threatens-walk\">Full Article : guardian.co.tt<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Griffith threatens to walk By Renuka Singh February 02, 2015 &#8211; guardian.co.tt National Security Minister Gary Griffith is threatening to quit in the face of scathing press release issued by Communication Minister Vasant Bharath yesterday accused him of making false claims and compromising the integrity of Cabinet. Bharath was referring to reports that Griffith claimed &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/?p=8603\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Griffith threatens to walk &#8211; AG to resign<\/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":[6,1,186,396,7,160,142],"tags":[85,394,393,44,971,889,834,144,49],"class_list":["post-8603","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crime","category-general-tt","category-law","category-peoples-partnership","category-politics","category-security","category-unc","tag-abuse","tag-anand-ramlogan","tag-attorney-general","tag-crime-in-tt","tag-david-west","tag-gary-griffith","tag-guardian","tag-kamla-persad-bissessar","tag-tt-govt"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8603","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=8603"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8603\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8619,"href":"https:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8603\/revisions\/8619"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8603"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8603"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8603"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}