Last Updated on Tuesday, 29 April 2025, 2:49 by Writer
Trinidad and Tobago’s opposition United National Congress (UNC) won Monday’s general elections, returning party leader Kamla Persad-Bissessar as Prime Minister after 10 years in the political wilderness.
She defeated fellow lawyer Stuart Young, 50, who was parachuted into the role of Prime Minister in March, 2025 after leader of the People’s National Movement (PNM), Dr Keith Rowley resigned.
Ms Persad-Bissessar, 73, in her victory address, promised to reopen the Petrotrin oil refinery, preserve old age pensions and guaranteed salary increases, among other things.
Dr Rowley said his party was expected to retain 10 or 12 of the 41 seats. The official results were not yet known but the PNM Leader said based on internal calculations, his party opted to concede defeat.
Ms Persad-Bissessar and her UNC had been in office from 2010 to 2015.
The UNC and Guyana’s governing People’s Progressive Party (PPP) had always enjoyed good relations. Its now late leader, Basdeo Panday, had visited Guyana on a number of occasions and even addressed an event of the PPP-aligned Guyana Agricultural and General Workers Union at Enmore, East Coast Demerara.
