{"id":9778,"date":"2010-11-18T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2010-11-18T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2010\/11\/18\/trinidad-culture-ministry-gave-4m-to-fund-divali-this-year\/"},"modified":"2010-11-18T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2010-11-18T12:00:00","slug":"trinidad-culture-ministry-gave-4m-to-fund-divali-this-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2010\/11\/18\/trinidad-culture-ministry-gave-4m-to-fund-divali-this-year\/","title":{"rendered":"Trinidad Culture Ministry Gave $4M to Fund Divali This Year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.trinidadexpress.com\/news\/Culture_Ministry_gives_out__4m_in_Divali_funding-105922018.html\">www.trinidadexpress.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO, October 27, 2010: Divali is an important national celebration in Trinidad. Minister of Arts and Multiculturalism Winston Peters distributed cheques amounting to $4 million for the hosting of this year&#8217;s Divali celebrations across Trinidad and Tobago.<\/p>\n<p>The handing over took place at the ministry&#8217;s head office at Frederick Street, Port of Spain. Among the two major organisations receiving cheques were the National Council of Indian Culture (NCIC) and the Sanatan Dharma Maha Sabha (SDMS).<\/p>\n<p>Peters said: &#8220;This funding will allow the Maha Sabha, as well as the NCIC, to bring Divali celebrations to every community throughout the country. &#8220;We are very much looking forward to contributing to the enhancement of the celebration of this festival and similarly supporting other events that represent the culture and heritage of our people.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: www.trinidadexpress.com TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO, October 27, 2010: Divali is an important national celebration in Trinidad. Minister of Arts and,&#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-9778","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9778","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=9778"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9778\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9778"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9778"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9778"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}