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Caribbean & Central America - September 2013 (ISSN 1741-4458)

TRINIDAD & TOBAGO: Premier tries to turn tide with reshuffle

On the face of it, the People’s Partnership (PP) government led by Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar is having a torrid time, losing a previously safe seat in a late-July by-election to ousted minister Jack Warner and having to seek consensus with opposition People’s National Movement (PNM) leader Keith Rowley following a mid-August upsurge in violence.  In an attempt to regain the initiative, on 5 September Persad-Bissessar announced her third major cabinet reshuffle in three years.  But the underlying position may not be quite as bad as it seems.

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