{"id":213879,"date":"2026-03-11T07:54:26","date_gmt":"2026-03-11T07:54:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=213879"},"modified":"2026-03-11T07:54:26","modified_gmt":"2026-03-11T07:54:26","slug":"pm-chases-powers-crooked-shadow-columnist-trinidadexpress-com","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=213879","title":{"rendered":"PM chases power&#8217;s crooked shadow | Columnist | trinidadexpress.com"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I do not know if Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar has worked out a plan on how she proposes to write her name in history. Ordinarily, the nature of politics and political rule in the top Caribbean countries, in the region\u2019s relatively short time in global history (600 years recorded since the arrival of the Europeans)<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/trinidadexpress.com\/opinion\/columnists\/pm-chases-power-s-crooked-shadow\/article_05f9a5c1-512c-40c5-aaae-db13736d6a1d.html\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I do not know if Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar has worked out a plan on<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":213880,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-213879","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/213879-pm-chases-powers-crooked-shadow-columnist-trinidadexpress-com.jpg",768,403,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/213879-pm-chases-powers-crooked-shadow-columnist-trinidadexpress-com-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/213879-pm-chases-powers-crooked-shadow-columnist-trinidadexpress-com-300x157.jpg",300,157,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/213879-pm-chases-powers-crooked-shadow-columnist-trinidadexpress-com.jpg",640,336,false],"large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/213879-pm-chases-powers-crooked-shadow-columnist-trinidadexpress-com.jpg",640,336,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/213879-pm-chases-powers-crooked-shadow-columnist-trinidadexpress-com.jpg",768,403,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/213879-pm-chases-powers-crooked-shadow-columnist-trinidadexpress-com.jpg",768,403,false],"chromenews-featured":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/213879-pm-chases-powers-crooked-shadow-columnist-trinidadexpress-com.jpg",768,403,false],"chromenews-large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/213879-pm-chases-powers-crooked-shadow-columnist-trinidadexpress-com.jpg",768,403,false],"chromenews-medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/213879-pm-chases-powers-crooked-shadow-columnist-trinidadexpress-com-590x403.jpg",590,403,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\/213879","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=213879"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213879\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/213880"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=213879"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=213879"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=213879"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}