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Weekly Report - 28 January 2010 (WR-10-04)
TRINIDAD & TOBAGO: Opposition elects first female leader
The veteran leader of the main opposition United National Congress
(UNC), Basdeo Panday, was decisively beaten by Kamla Persad-Bissessar in a
three-way party leadership contest on 24 January. Panday was far from
magnanimous in defeat. First he maintained that despite the result he remained
the opposition leader until sitting MPs decided to the contrary. Then he claimed
sabotage. Persad-Bissessar called for the UNC to unite to provide a more
effective opposition to Prime Minister Patrick Manning's People's National
Movement (PNM).
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