Worldwide
Guide to Women in Leadership
Trinidad and Tobago Parties
Also see Trinidad and Tobago Ministers
1956-61 Vice-Chairperson of Peoples National Movement Isabel Ursula Cadogan Teshea
1994- Leader and Founder of Movement for Unity and Progress Hulsie Bhaggan
1996-2002 Chairman of Peoples National Movement Dr. Linda Baboolal
1996-? Deputy Leader of Peoples National Movement Joan Yville-Williams
Former Minister, MP and Senator.
1996 Deputy Leader of the Opposition (Peoples National Movement) in the
Senate Nafessa Mohammed
1996- Deputy Political Leader
Deputy Party Leader and possibly later Opposionion Leader in the Senate. She
was Senator until 2001.
1999-2001 Chairperson of People's Empowerment Party
2000-2001 Leader of the Opposition in the Tobago House of Assembly
Deborah Moore-Miggins
She was Trinidad and Tobago Senator 1995-96.
1999-2000 Deputy Leader of the People's Empowerment Party
2000-01 Leader of the People's Empowerment Party Beverly
Ramsey-Moore
Senator from 2001.
2001-02 Leader of the Independent Business in the Senator Eastlyn McKenzie
Senator since 1995. Her role is administrative, the 11 senators appointed as
independents did not form a group.
Circa 2005- Deputy Political Leader of
The United National Congesss Kamla Persad-Bissessar
2006-07 Parliamentary Leader of UNC and Leader of the Oppostion
2010-
Political Leader of the United National Congress
Attorney General 1995-96, Minister of Legal Affairs
1996-99,
Minister of Education
1999-2001,
Acting Prime
Minister in September
2000 and Attorney General and Minister of
Legal Affairs in 2001. She became Parliamentary Leader after internal divisions
in the party after the former Prime Minister, Basdeo Panday, had to resign in
2005 because of corruption charges. On 4 October he endorsed her as Leader and
Prime Ministerial candidate and a majority in the governing committee backed
this, but on 6 October Panday and another man were chosen as joint leaders with
no candidate for the post of Prime Minister. Panday had been convicted on the
charges and later cleared because of legal technicalities. In 2010 she defeated
Panday in a "landslide" as Party Leader and was Prime Minister
2010-15. She is (b. 1952-)
Appointed Senator in 2009 and Senate
Vice-President in 2010.
2015 Acting Chairperson of the United National Congress (UNC) Khadija Ameen
Last update 20.09.15