{"id":72736,"date":"2025-07-03T21:00:49","date_gmt":"2025-07-03T12:00:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/jul\/03\/trinidad-tobago-india-narendra-modi"},"modified":"2025-07-03T21:00:49","modified_gmt":"2025-07-03T12:00:49","slug":"trinidad-and-tobagos-move-to-honor-indian-pm-modi-divides-opinion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=72736","title":{"rendered":"Trinidad and Tobago\u2019s move to honor Indian PM Modi divides opinion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Modi to be honored on historic two-day visit but country\u2019s Muslims express concern over human rights record<\/p>\n<p>News that Indian prime minister Narendra Modi will receive Trinidad and Tobago\u2019s highest honour during a historic visit to the country has been welcomed by the Indo-Trinidadian Hindu population but has drawn strong objections from the country\u2019s largest Muslim organisation.<\/p>\n<p>Modi\u2019s two-day visit to the country on Thursday marks the first time a sitting Indian prime minister sets foot in Trinidad and Tobago. Modi accepted the invitation from the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/apr\/29\/former-pm-kamla-persad-bissessar-wins-election-in-trinidad-and-tobago\">recently appointed prime minister<\/a>, Kamla Persad-Bissessar, who has longstanding diplomatic ties with India.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/jul\/03\/trinidad-tobago-india-narendra-modi\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Modi to be honored on historic two-day visit but country\u2019s Muslims express concern over human rights recordNews that Indian prime minister Narendra Modi will receive Trinidad and Tobago\u2019s highest honour during a historic visit to the country has been w&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4831,"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":[246,62,61,2497,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-72736","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-americas","category-india","category-south-and-central-asia","category-trinidad-and-tobago","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72736","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\/4831"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=72736"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72736\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":72737,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72736\/revisions\/72737"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=72736"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=72736"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=72736"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}