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Caribbean & Central America - February 2015 (ISSN 1741-4458)
TRINIDAD & TOBAGO: Stormy end to Persad-Bissessar’s 5-year term
Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar and her People’s Partnership (PP) alliance won the May 2010 general election following the disastrous misjudgement by then-prime minister Patrick Manning and his People’s National Movement (PNM) to call an early election. The Persad-Bissessar government is now taking exactly the opposite approach to Manning and, following the recent witness-tampering scandal which has cost the attorney general his job, may delay holding a new poll until the final possible moment. While the five-year parliament expires at the end of May, the prime minister has suggested that she may not call the election until September 2015.
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