{"id":8353,"date":"2009-10-15T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-10-15T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2009\/10\/15\/trinidad-government-to-pay-3m-discrimination-in-radio-license\/"},"modified":"2009-10-15T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2009-10-15T12:00:00","slug":"trinidad-government-to-pay-3m-discrimination-in-radio-license","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2009\/10\/15\/trinidad-government-to-pay-3m-discrimination-in-radio-license\/","title":{"rendered":"Trinidad Government To Pay $3M Discrimination in Radio License"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/guardian.co.tt\/news\/general\/2009\/09\/23\/govt-pay-3m-radio-licence-delay\">guardian.co.tt<\/a><\/p>\n<p>TRINIDAD &#038; TOBAGO, September 23, 2009: The Trinidad government has to pay the Sanatan Dharma Maha Sabha, which operates Central Broadcasting Services Ltd, close to $3 million in damages for its unequal treatment and delay in granting them a FM radio broadcasting license. Originally requested in 2000, the permit was only granted in 2006 after a judicial battle. <\/p>\n<p>Justice Ronnie Boodoosingh awarded compensatory and vindicatory damages yesterday. Boodoosingh said this case showed discrimination &#8220;plain and simple.&#8221; The Justice continued: &#8220;The award was meant primarily to deter public authorities and persons exercising public functions from engaging in or persisting with unequal treatment.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: guardian.co.tt TRINIDAD &#038; TOBAGO, September 23, 2009: The Trinidad government has to pay the Sanatan Dharma Maha Sabha, which,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8353","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8353","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8353"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8353\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8353"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8353"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8353"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}