{"id":66414,"date":"2014-04-02T02:32:26","date_gmt":"2014-04-02T02:32:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sierraexpressmedia.com\/?p=66414"},"modified":"2014-04-02T02:32:26","modified_gmt":"2014-04-02T02:32:26","slug":"minority-leader-attends-summit-in-brussels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/?p=66414","title":{"rendered":"Minority leader attends summit in Brussels"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><b>Freetown, April I (SLENA) &#8211; <\/b>The Minority Leader of parliament, Hon. Dr Bernadette Lahai of the opposition SLPP over the weekend left the shores of Sierra Leone to attend a two-day parliamentary summit in Brussels.\u00a0 (Photo: <i>Dr. Lahai poised for development.<\/i>)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Speaking to SLENA shortly before departure, the minority leader said the summit was intended to prepare the ground for the heads of state submit to be held between the 2<sup>nd<\/sup> and 4<sup>th<\/sup> April 2014 in Brussels in which heads of state will discuss issues related to the development and improvement of member nations.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Dr. Lahai is currently the Chairperson of the Committee on Transport, Industry, Communications, Energy, Gender and Technology in the pan African Parliament.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">She is the only woman to serve as Chairperson of the committee apart from the Gender Committee which was chaired by a female since 2012.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u00a0Dr Lahai has invigorated the committee by hosting the international conference on energy, arms, trade and ICT.<\/p>\n<p>SB\/HOP\/SLENA<\/p>\n<p><b><i>Stay with Sierra Express Media, for your trusted place in news!<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n<div align=\"center\">\n<hr align=\"center\" size=\"2\" width=\"100%\" \/>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Freetown, April I (SLENA) &#8211; The Minority Leader of parliament, Hon. Dr Bernadette Lahai of the opposition SLPP over the weekend left the shores of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":34,"featured_media":66415,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[671,751],"tags":[18460],"class_list":["post-66414","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-global-news","tag-hon-dr-bernadette-lahai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66414","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/34"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=66414"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66414\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/66415"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=66414"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=66414"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=66414"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}