{"id":23650,"date":"2020-10-10T10:44:26","date_gmt":"2020-10-10T01:44:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/oct\/10\/cook-islands-prime-minister-gives-himself-17-portfolios"},"modified":"2020-10-10T10:44:26","modified_gmt":"2020-10-10T01:44:26","slug":"cook-islands-prime-minister-gives-himself-17-portfolios","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=23650","title":{"rendered":"Cook Islands&#8217; prime minister gives himself 17 portfolios"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mark Brown\u2019s multiple ministries prompt opposition to suggest PM lacks confidence in his cabinet<\/p>\n<p>The Cook Islands\u2019 new prime minister has allocated himself 17 portfolios in the country\u2019s government.<\/p>\n<p>Aside from the premiership, Mark Brown is the minister for foreign affairs, immigration, finance, energy and renewables, police, and telecommunications. He is also holds portfolio responsibilities for marine resources, seabed minerals and natural resources, superannuation, and the country\u2019s outer islands. Brown is also the country\u2019s attorney-general.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/oct\/10\/cook-islands-prime-minister-gives-himself-17-portfolios\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mark Brown\u2019s multiple ministries prompt opposition to suggest PM lacks confidence in his cabinetThe Cook Islands\u2019 new prime minister has allocated himself 17 portfolios in the country\u2019s government.Aside from the premiership, Mark Brown is the minister &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1402,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,855,56,874,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23650","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-cook-islands","category-new-zealand","category-pacific-islands","category-world-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23650","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1402"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23650"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23650\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23660,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23650\/revisions\/23660"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23650"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23650"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23650"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}