{"id":168329,"date":"2025-08-12T15:18:31","date_gmt":"2025-08-12T15:18:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=168329"},"modified":"2025-08-12T15:18:31","modified_gmt":"2025-08-12T15:18:31","slug":"breaking-the-cement-grip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=168329","title":{"rendered":"Breaking the cement grip"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a rare example of economics trumping politics, Trinidad Cement Ltd\u2019s (TCL) four-year monopoly in the cement market is coming to an end. A rival cement company, which left Trinidad and Tobago in 2021 because of oppressive government regulations, is now set to resume operations. This is a textbook example of how politicians get economics<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/trinidadexpress.com\/opinion\/editorials\/breaking-the-cement-grip\/article_92d7e384-266f-495d-aae0-9856ea602dd4.html\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a rare example of economics trumping politics, Trinidad Cement Ltd\u2019s (TCL) four-year monopoly in<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":168330,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-168329","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/168329-breaking-the-cement-grip.jpg",730,383,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/168329-breaking-the-cement-grip-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/168329-breaking-the-cement-grip-300x157.jpg",300,157,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/168329-breaking-the-cement-grip.jpg",640,336,false],"large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/168329-breaking-the-cement-grip.jpg",640,336,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/168329-breaking-the-cement-grip.jpg",730,383,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/168329-breaking-the-cement-grip.jpg",730,383,false],"chromenews-featured":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/168329-breaking-the-cement-grip.jpg",730,383,false],"chromenews-large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/168329-breaking-the-cement-grip.jpg",730,383,false],"chromenews-medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/168329-breaking-the-cement-grip-590x383.jpg",590,383,true]},"author_info":{"display_name":"Jonathan Jeriah","author_link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?author=1"},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?cat=38\" rel=\"category\">Politics<\/a>","tag_info":"Politics","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168329","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=168329"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168329\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/168330"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=168329"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=168329"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=168329"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}