The General Election 2010 in Trinidad and Tobago will go down in the history of the country as the first of its kind.

For the first time one of the two major protagonists contesting the election for the position of leader of government is a female. To the political scientist, the outcome of this election will provide very useful data on electoral behaviour in a plural society. The...

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Who will lead?

As the election draws nearer, the battle for Tunapuna, one of the most keenly contested marginal seats, gets hotter. Congress of the People (COP) leader, Winston Dookeran, the coalition’s candidate for the area, is going up against incumbent PNM MP, Esther Le Gendre. Key national figures have stated that Le Gendr...

The Marginals - Seats in the balance

The two seats in Tobago always will be considered very important in the politics of Trinidad and Tobago.<!--break-->  For years, there always has been a challenge to the People’s National Movement (PNM) on the sister isle, where it was either, the Democratic Action Congress (DAC), the National Alliance for Re...

Gail Alexander

It wasn’t really necessary for the music at last Friday night’s UNC meeting  in Diego Martin to feature Helen Reddy’s “I Am Woman”,  the signature tune of  female movements worldwide.
    UNC leader Kamla Persad- Bissessar would have had no difficulty in ensuring certain PNM men h...

“All The Man We Need—Rowley!” That message was one of many issuing from Diego Martin West on Thursday night along with several other declarations. Some clear. Some coded. But all, lapped up by the large crowd—of national meeting proportions—which rolled into the Scotiabank car park venue to hear Diego Martin West MP Keith Rowley’s election platform debut. ...

Trinidad and Tobago is a parliamentary democracy patterned in the Westminster model of governance of the United Kingdom. The Prime Minister is the Head of Government and is chosen from among the elected representatives on the basis of his or her command o...

St. Joseph is the oldest town in Trinidad and Tobago. Originally known as San José de Oruña, it served as the capital of Spanish Trinidad between 1592 and 1783. San José de Oruña was established one hundred years after Christopher Columbus docked in Trinidad in 1492. St. Joseph was the first capital of the island and was founded by ...

The 2007 General Elections carried its own peculiar dynamics. It was contested by the traditional dominant Indo- and Afro-based parties, the United National Congress (UNC) and the People’s National Movement (PNM). But it also saw the return of a significant third party similar to the Organization of National Reconstruction (ONR) of 1981, this time in the...