Kamla Persad-Bissessar

@Prime Minister of Trinidad, Birthday and Childhood

Kamla Persad-Bissessar is Trinidad and Tobago’s seventh Prime Minister

Apr 22, 1952

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Biography

Personal Details

  • Birthday: April 22, 1952
  • Nationality: Trinidadian
  • Famous: Prime Minister of Trinidad, Tobago, Leaders, Political Leaders, Prime Ministers
  • Hobbies: Reading novels
  • Spouses: Gregory Bissessar
  • Known as: Kamla Persad Bissessar
  • Childrens: Kris Bissessar

Kamla Persad-Bissessar born at

Penal

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Birth Place

Kamla Persad-Bissessar is married to Dr. Gregory Bissessar and together, they have one son.

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Personal Life

Persad-Bissessar was born on 22 April 1952, in Siparia, a rural community in southern Trinidad.

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Childhood & Early Life

As a young girl, she took interest in technology and in reading novels.

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Childhood & Early Life

She began her studies in 1957 at the rural Mohess Road Hindu School, later studying at Erin Road Presbyterian School and Sibaria Union Presbyterian School.

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Childhood & Early Life

She graduated from Iere High School, one of the five Presbyterian secondary schools in Trinidad and Tobago.

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Childhood & Early Life

Upon graduation from high school, she pursued further study, first at the University of the West Indies and later at Norwood Technical College (in England), culminating in a Bachelor’s degree with honors in Education.

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Career

Although she was offered a Fulbright Scholarship to study at Columbia University in New York, she instead pursued a degree in law at Hugh Wooding Law School, where she received her Bachelor’s degree in law.

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Career

After completing her studies, she began working as a high school teacher, both in Trinidad and Tobago and in Jamaica.

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Career

Between 1987 and 1991, she worked as the alderman of the St. Patrick County Council.

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On 1 November 1994, she took the Oath of Allegiance to represent the United National Congress in Opposition.

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Career

At 25, she became one of the youngest lecturers to teach at UWI, Mona campus.

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Awards & Achievements

During her studies at Hugh Wooding Law School, she won prizes for Most Outstanding Student and Best Overall Performance.

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Awards & Achievements

During her work as Minister of Education, she successfully established a program of universal secondary education throughout Trinidad and Tobago, creating 32 new schools and changing the standardized entrance test to suit more modernized and appropriate assessment standards.

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Awards & Achievements

Perhaps her most widely known achievement is to serve as the first female Prime Minister in the history of Trinidad and Tobago.

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Awards & Achievements