Woman scorned, returns as PM - Trinidad and Tobago Newsday

Women Make History Leading Trinidad and Tobago Government - The Caribbean Camera

For the first time in Trinidad and Tobago’s history, the country’s top three constitutional offices will be held by women following a dramatic shift in Monday’s general election results. Kamla Persad-Bissessar Kamla Persad-Bissessar of the United National Congress (UNC) will return as Prime Minister, defeating Stuart Young of the now-opposition People’s National Movement (PNM). This marks her second tenure in the role, the first being from 2010 …

Woman scorned, returns as PM - Trinidad and Tobago Newsday

As controversies continue in our adversarial political system, two female-driven speeches remain spinning in my mind – a heartbreaking one by Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar, SC, and a prophetic one by the indomitable Moruga/Tableland MP, now Minister of Culture and Community Development, Michelle Benjamin. First, as MP, Ms Benjamin, a Spiritual Baptist, boldly stood her ground from the opposition back bench last October and declared: “Mad…