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On 21 September 2015, Persad-Bissessar was appointed leader of the opposition by president Anthony Carmona after her party was defeated at the polls, following the 7 September 2015 general elections. The People's National Movement led by Keith Rowley secured 23 out of 41 seats to form the government,
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On 24 January 2010, Kamla Persad-Bissessar was elected political leader of the UNC, emerging victorious over the party's founder and former prime minister, Basdeo Panday. She was formally appointed opposition leader on 25 February 2010, having gained the support of a majority of UNC MPs.
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shop. Her paternal grandparents were Soomintra Persad (née Gopaulsingh) and Choranji Persad, and her maternal grandparents were Rookmin and Ramprit. Her paternal grandmother, Soomintra, was a market seller who was a founding member of the Saraswati Prakash Mandir, a
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and at the University of the West Indies in Mona, and she was also a consultant lecturer at the Jamaica College of Insurance. She was the youngest lecturer, at the age of twenty-five, to the ever teach at the University of the West Indies. She was awarded a
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By the time she left Trinidad she had already met her future husband Gregory Bisessar and he was already in England when she was attending college. They married two years later in 1971, when she was eighteen and he was twenty-two. They later left England for
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to further her studies, but her traditional father and uncles insisted she stayed in Trinidad and Tobago. However, her mother eventually convinced them to send her. Persad-Bissessar then left Trinidad at the age of seventeen, in August 1969, to attended
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was convicted of failing to make an accurate declaration to the Integrity Commission concerning a bank account held in London. Persad-Bissessar was subsequently appointed Leader of the Opposition on 26 April 2006.
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On 25 April 2006 she received the support of the majority of Opposition MPs for the post of Leader of the Opposition. The position of Leader of the Opposition was declared vacant by President
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was able to disassociate himself from ongoing cases and again in 2001 after Maharaj left the party. When the UNC formed Government on 22 December 2000, she was sworn in as the
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at the time. There she was a top debating student, champion badminton and netball player, and she excelled in her classes and was put into special classes to write the
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with her parents and paternal grandparents at Boodoo Trace in Penal, where she attended the Mohess Road Hindu School. In 1959, at the age of seven, her family moved to
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Persad-Bissessar became political leader of the UNC in 2010. In 2011, Persad-Bissessar was named the thirteenth most influential female leader around the world by
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while the People's Partnership coalition led by Persad-Bissessar secured 18 out of the 41 seats in the House of Representatives to form the opposition. In the
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where she attended the Erin Road Presbyterian Primary School, and later the Siparia Union Presbyterian Primary School. In 1963, she was accepted to
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at the top of her class, with awards for being the most outstanding student and having the best overall performance. In 2006, she obtained an
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in southern Trinidad. In 2012, Persad-Bissessar visited her paternal great-grandfather's village on a state visit to India.
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Persad-Bissessar married Gregory Bissessar in 1971 and they have one son. She and her husband reside in Philippine,
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Council until 1991. She then became an opposition senator from 1994 until 1995. Persad-Bissessar then became a
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Politics, Ethnicity and the Postcolonial Nation: A critical analysis of political discourse in the Caribbean
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Persad-Bissessar held the premiership from May 2010 to September 2015, where she was also the leader of the
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to do research leading to a PhD but she opted to study law instead. In 1985, she graduated from the
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Trinidadian and Tobagonian politician, lawyer, and the 6th prime Minister of Trinidad and Tobago
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from 26 May 2010 until 9 September 2015. She was the country's first female prime minister,
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Ram Lakhan Mishra and Ganga Mishra who were from India. Pundit Ram Lakhan Mishra was from
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from the University of West Indies Arthur Lok Jack Graduate School of Business in
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family. Her ancestors emigrated in the 1880s from India to Trinidad through the
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descent. Her father was a bookkeeper and worked in the accounting department of
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faith. She had raised her brother's children after he died in a car accident.
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in 1995 and has been ever since. She served as Attorney General in 1995 until
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Persad-Bissessar took office as prime minister after the victory of the
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When Persad-Bissessar was sixteen, she wanted to go to the
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In 1987 Persad-Bissessar entered politics serving as an
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Persad-Bissessar spent her early childhood living in a
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in southern Trinidad to Lilraj and Rita Persad, both
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Index

Kamla Persad-Bissesar
The Honourable
SC
MP

Leader of the Opposition of Trinidad and Tobago
Incumbent
Anthony Carmona
Paula-Mae Weekes
Christine Kangaloo
Keith Rowley
George Maxwell Richards
Patrick Manning
Basdeo Panday
prime minister of Trinidad and Tobago
Political Leader
United National Congress
Incumbent
Basdeo Panday
Attorney General of Trinidad and Tobago
Basdeo Panday
Ramesh Maharaj
Minister of Education
Basdeo Panday
Siparia
Incumbent
Senate of Trinidad and Tobago
Commonwealth Chair-in-Office
Kamalesh Sharma
Julia Gillard

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