{"id":12979,"date":"2010-07-14T15:20:54","date_gmt":"2010-07-14T19:20:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dominicanewsonline.com\/?p=12979"},"modified":"2010-07-14T21:53:31","modified_gmt":"2010-07-15T01:53:31","slug":"breaking-news-hector-john-is-the-new-leader-of-the-opposition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dominicanewsonline.com\/news\/homepage\/news\/politics\/breaking-news-hector-john-is-the-new-leader-of-the-opposition\/","title":{"rendered":"UPDATE: Hector John is the new Opposition leader"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_12556\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-12556\" style=\"width: 200px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/HectorJohn1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12556\" title=\"HectorJohn\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/HectorJohn1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"203\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dominicanewsonline.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/HectorJohn1.jpg 200w, https:\/\/dominicanewsonline.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/HectorJohn1-111x113.jpg 111w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-12556\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Hector John<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Parliamentary Representative for the Salisbury, Coulibistrie and Morne Rachette constituency Hector John is the new leader of the Opposition.<\/p>\n<p>Ron Green remains as party leader.<\/p>\n<p>Green told a press conference Wednesday afternoon that John, who is a strong reconfirmed member of parliament for Salisbury, has recently galvanized a successful campaign on the theme of &#8220;Strengthening our Democracy, no one-party state\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe is a university graduate and a young man of great promise &#8211; very well-rooted in his West Coast communities. He will be backed up in the House of Assembly by a formidable team of experienced parliamentarians and we expect that he will be shortly sworn in and become the leader of the Opposition&#8230;,&#8221; Green said.<\/p>\n<p>Meantime, John said his endorsement is an indication that the UWP is engendering the enabling environment within which Dominica can have a properly constituted parliament, where the affairs of the people can be discussed with confidence, integrity and dignity.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cParliament is about the common good of the people and that cannot be taken lightly by any ruling party. I wish to express the hope that the people of Marigot and Salisbury have spoken on the topic of true representation, government and the speaker are respectful and that they listen to the message and are committed to working with these individuals to achieve good governance in Dominica,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>John is the second elected Member of Parliament from Salisbury to fill the post of Opposition leader. Earl Williams, former parliamentary representative for that constituency, served in that position. However, he\u00a0 resigned in July 2008, following allegations of financial misconduct in his legal profession.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Parliamentary Representative for the Salisbury, Coulibistrie and Morne Rachette constituency Hector John is the new leader of the Opposition. Ron Green remains as party leader. Green told a press conference Wednesday afternoon that John, who is a strong reconfirmed member&#8230;","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":12556,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_cbd_carousel_blocks":"[]","footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12979","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>UPDATE: Hector John is the new Opposition leader - Dominica News Online<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/dominicanewsonline.com\/news\/homepage\/news\/politics\/breaking-news-hector-john-is-the-new-leader-of-the-opposition\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"UPDATE: Hector John is the new Opposition leader - Dominica News Online\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Parliamentary Representative for the Salisbury, Coulibistrie and Morne Rachette constituency Hector John is the new leader of the Opposition. Ron Green remains as party leader. Green told a press conference Wednesday afternoon that John, who is a strong reconfirmed member...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/dominicanewsonline.com\/news\/homepage\/news\/politics\/breaking-news-hector-john-is-the-new-leader-of-the-opposition\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Dominica News Online\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2010-07-14T19:20:54+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2010-07-15T01:53:31+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/dominicanewsonline.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/HectorJohn1.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"200\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"203\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Admin\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Admin\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\\\/\\\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/dominicanewsonline.com\\\/news\\\/homepage\\\/news\\\/politics\\\/breaking-news-hector-john-is-the-new-leader-of-the-opposition\\\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/dominicanewsonline.com\\\/news\\\/homepage\\\/news\\\/politics\\\/breaking-news-hector-john-is-the-new-leader-of-the-opposition\\\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Admin\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/dominicanewsonline.com\\\/news\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/1cf13c57fb23f5f3f17888628ce87bed\"},\"headline\":\"UPDATE: Hector John is the new Opposition leader\",\"datePublished\":\"2010-07-14T19:20:54+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2010-07-15T01:53:31+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/dominicanewsonline.com\\\/news\\\/homepage\\\/news\\\/politics\\\/breaking-news-hector-john-is-the-new-leader-of-the-opposition\\\/\"},\"wordCount\":285,\"commentCount\":136,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/dominicanewsonline.com\\\/news\\\/homepage\\\/news\\\/politics\\\/breaking-news-hector-john-is-the-new-leader-of-the-opposition\\\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/dominicanewsonline.com\\\/news\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2010\\\/07\\\/HectorJohn1.jpg\",\"articleSection\":[\"Politics\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\\\/\\\/dominicanewsonline.com\\\/news\\\/homepage\\\/news\\\/politics\\\/breaking-news-hector-john-is-the-new-leader-of-the-opposition\\\/#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/dominicanewsonline.com\\\/news\\\/homepage\\\/news\\\/politics\\\/breaking-news-hector-john-is-the-new-leader-of-the-opposition\\\/\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/dominicanewsonline.com\\\/news\\\/homepage\\\/news\\\/politics\\\/breaking-news-hector-john-is-the-new-leader-of-the-opposition\\\/\",\"name\":\"UPDATE: Hector John is the new Opposition leader - Dominica News Online\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/dominicanewsonline.com\\\/news\\\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/dominicanewsonline.com\\\/news\\\/homepage\\\/news\\\/politics\\\/breaking-news-hector-john-is-the-new-leader-of-the-opposition\\\/#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/dominicanewsonline.com\\\/news\\\/homepage\\\/news\\\/politics\\\/breaking-news-hector-john-is-the-new-leader-of-the-opposition\\\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/dominicanewsonline.com\\\/news\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2010\\\/07\\\/HectorJohn1.jpg\",\"datePublished\":\"2010-07-14T19:20:54+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2010-07-15T01:53:31+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/dominicanewsonline.com\\\/news\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/1cf13c57fb23f5f3f17888628ce87bed\"},\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/dominicanewsonline.com\\\/news\\\/homepage\\\/news\\\/politics\\\/breaking-news-hector-john-is-the-new-leader-of-the-opposition\\\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\\\/\\\/dominicanewsonline.com\\\/news\\\/homepage\\\/news\\\/politics\\\/breaking-news-hector-john-is-the-new-leader-of-the-opposition\\\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/dominicanewsonline.com\\\/news\\\/homepage\\\/news\\\/politics\\\/breaking-news-hector-john-is-the-new-leader-of-the-opposition\\\/#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/dominicanewsonline.com\\\/news\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2010\\\/07\\\/HectorJohn1.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/dominicanewsonline.com\\\/news\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2010\\\/07\\\/HectorJohn1.jpg\",\"width\":\"200\",\"height\":\"203\",\"caption\":\"Opposition Leader Hector John\"},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/dominicanewsonline.com\\\/news\\\/homepage\\\/news\\\/politics\\\/breaking-news-hector-john-is-the-new-leader-of-the-opposition\\\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\\\/\\\/dominicanewsonline.com\\\/news\\\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"UPDATE: Hector John is the new Opposition leader\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/dominicanewsonline.com\\\/news\\\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/dominicanewsonline.com\\\/news\\\/\",\"name\":\"Dominica News Online\",\"description\":\"The most popular news site in the Commonwealth of Dominica\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\\\/\\\/dominicanewsonline.com\\\/news\\\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/dominicanewsonline.com\\\/news\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/1cf13c57fb23f5f3f17888628ce87bed\",\"name\":\"Admin\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/secure.gravatar.com\\\/avatar\\\/42ebaab81cf135a4ac3c52a6b343fa681417839645e8852f990f1e435612b089?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/secure.gravatar.com\\\/avatar\\\/42ebaab81cf135a4ac3c52a6b343fa681417839645e8852f990f1e435612b089?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/secure.gravatar.com\\\/avatar\\\/42ebaab81cf135a4ac3c52a6b343fa681417839645e8852f990f1e435612b089?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"caption\":\"Admin\"},\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/dominicanewsonline.com\\\/news\\\/author\\\/tdurand\\\/\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"UPDATE: Hector John is the new Opposition leader - Dominica News Online","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/dominicanewsonline.com\/news\/homepage\/news\/politics\/breaking-news-hector-john-is-the-new-leader-of-the-opposition\/","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"UPDATE: Hector John is the new Opposition leader - Dominica News Online","og_description":"Parliamentary Representative for the Salisbury, Coulibistrie and Morne Rachette constituency Hector John is the new leader of the Opposition. Ron Green remains as party leader. Green told a press conference Wednesday afternoon that John, who is a strong reconfirmed member...","og_url":"https:\/\/dominicanewsonline.com\/news\/homepage\/news\/politics\/breaking-news-hector-john-is-the-new-leader-of-the-opposition\/","og_site_name":"Dominica News Online","article_published_time":"2010-07-14T19:20:54+00:00","article_modified_time":"2010-07-15T01:53:31+00:00","og_image":[{"width":200,"height":203,"url":"https:\/\/dominicanewsonline.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/HectorJohn1.jpg","type":"image\/jpeg"}],"author":"Admin","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"Admin","Est. reading time":"1 minute"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/dominicanewsonline.com\/news\/homepage\/news\/politics\/breaking-news-hector-john-is-the-new-leader-of-the-opposition\/#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/dominicanewsonline.com\/news\/homepage\/news\/politics\/breaking-news-hector-john-is-the-new-leader-of-the-opposition\/"},"author":{"name":"Admin","@id":"https:\/\/dominicanewsonline.com\/news\/#\/schema\/person\/1cf13c57fb23f5f3f17888628ce87bed"},"headline":"UPDATE: Hector John is the new Opposition leader","datePublished":"2010-07-14T19:20:54+00:00","dateModified":"2010-07-15T01:53:31+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/dominicanewsonline.com\/news\/homepage\/news\/politics\/breaking-news-hector-john-is-the-new-leader-of-the-opposition\/"},"wordCount":285,"commentCount":136,"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/dominicanewsonline.com\/news\/homepage\/news\/politics\/breaking-news-hector-john-is-the-new-leader-of-the-opposition\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/dominicanewsonline.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/HectorJohn1.jpg","articleSection":["Politics"],"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"CommentAction","name":"Comment","target":["https:\/\/dominicanewsonline.com\/news\/homepage\/news\/politics\/breaking-news-hector-john-is-the-new-leader-of-the-opposition\/#respond"]}]},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/dominicanewsonline.com\/news\/homepage\/news\/politics\/breaking-news-hector-john-is-the-new-leader-of-the-opposition\/","url":"https:\/\/dominicanewsonline.com\/news\/homepage\/news\/politics\/breaking-news-hector-john-is-the-new-leader-of-the-opposition\/","name":"UPDATE: Hector John is the new Opposition leader - Dominica News Online","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/dominicanewsonline.com\/news\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/dominicanewsonline.com\/news\/homepage\/news\/politics\/breaking-news-hector-john-is-the-new-leader-of-the-opposition\/#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/dominicanewsonline.com\/news\/homepage\/news\/politics\/breaking-news-hector-john-is-the-new-leader-of-the-opposition\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/dominicanewsonline.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/HectorJohn1.jpg","datePublished":"2010-07-14T19:20:54+00:00","dateModified":"2010-07-15T01:53:31+00:00","author":{"@id":"https:\/\/dominicanewsonline.com\/news\/#\/schema\/person\/1cf13c57fb23f5f3f17888628ce87bed"},"breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/dominicanewsonline.com\/news\/homepage\/news\/politics\/breaking-news-hector-john-is-the-new-leader-of-the-opposition\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/dominicanewsonline.com\/news\/homepage\/news\/politics\/breaking-news-hector-john-is-the-new-leader-of-the-opposition\/"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/dominicanewsonline.com\/news\/homepage\/news\/politics\/breaking-news-hector-john-is-the-new-leader-of-the-opposition\/#primaryimage","url":"https:\/\/dominicanewsonline.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/HectorJohn1.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/dominicanewsonline.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/HectorJohn1.jpg","width":"200","height":"203","caption":"Opposition Leader Hector John"},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/dominicanewsonline.com\/news\/homepage\/news\/politics\/breaking-news-hector-john-is-the-new-leader-of-the-opposition\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/dominicanewsonline.com\/news\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"UPDATE: Hector John is the new Opposition leader"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/dominicanewsonline.com\/news\/#website","url":"https:\/\/dominicanewsonline.com\/news\/","name":"Dominica News Online","description":"The most popular news site in the Commonwealth of Dominica","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/dominicanewsonline.com\/news\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/dominicanewsonline.com\/news\/#\/schema\/person\/1cf13c57fb23f5f3f17888628ce87bed","name":"Admin","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/42ebaab81cf135a4ac3c52a6b343fa681417839645e8852f990f1e435612b089?s=96&d=mm&r=g","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/42ebaab81cf135a4ac3c52a6b343fa681417839645e8852f990f1e435612b089?s=96&d=mm&r=g","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/42ebaab81cf135a4ac3c52a6b343fa681417839645e8852f990f1e435612b089?s=96&d=mm&r=g","caption":"Admin"},"url":"https:\/\/dominicanewsonline.com\/news\/author\/tdurand\/"}]}},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/dominicanewsonline.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/HectorJohn1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dominicanewsonline.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12979","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dominicanewsonline.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dominicanewsonline.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dominicanewsonline.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dominicanewsonline.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12979"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/dominicanewsonline.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12979\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12984,"href":"https:\/\/dominicanewsonline.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12979\/revisions\/12984"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dominicanewsonline.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12556"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dominicanewsonline.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12979"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dominicanewsonline.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12979"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dominicanewsonline.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12979"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}