{"id":61403,"date":"2012-04-19T06:45:39","date_gmt":"2012-04-19T10:45:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dominicanewsonline.com\/news\/?p=61403"},"modified":"2012-04-19T11:38:25","modified_gmt":"2012-04-19T15:38:25","slug":"para-riviere-calls-it-quits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dominicanewsonline.com\/news\/homepage\/news\/politics\/para-riviere-calls-it-quits\/","title":{"rendered":"Para Riviere calls it quits"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_61404\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-61404\" style=\"width: 185px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-61404\" title=\"para riviere\" src=\"http:\/\/dominicanewsonline.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/para-riviere.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"185\" height=\"202\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-61404\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Para Riviere<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Lawyer Para Riviere is officially serving notice that he is ending his political career.<\/p>\n<p>Seventy two-year-old Riviere is the political leader of the Peoples Democratic Movement (PDM), which made very little waves on the local political scene.<\/p>\n<p>While announcing that it is time to hang up his boots, Riviere urged\u00a0 politicians here to practice honesty.<\/p>\n<p>Para, as he is commonly called, first began his political career with the black power movement back in 1968.<\/p>\n<p>He was also part of the Movement for New Dominica, the Legal Socialist Workers, and the Dominica Liberation Movement.<\/p>\n<p>His parting advice includes recommending that politicians be in constant contact with the people at all times for the further development of the country.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou have to understand world trends, you have to understand the development process, so when you put all of this together in your discussion with the people you formulate a plan,\u201d the outgoing politician said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is that plan that you have to try to put into effect to raise living standards, I don\u2019t see why that is so problematic in a little country like Dominica,&#8221; he told Dominica News Online.<\/p>\n<p>He is a practising lawyer at the moment, and is expected to focus a lot more attention on his legal practice.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Lawyer Para Riviere is officially serving notice that he is ending his political career. 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