Kamla Persad-Bissessar began preparing for governance immediately upon her inauguration as Political Leader of the United National Congress, setting up a shadow cabinet aimed at making the Patrick Manning regime more accountable.
But the changing of the Opposition UNC guard was formalised in a joyful and triumphant way in the presence of hundreds of supporters at the party’s Rienzi Complex, Couva, headquarters yesterday.
People who voted for change came to see the tangible results and to celebrate what that exercise in democracy had produced. And so it was to tassa drumming and cheers that Persad-Bissessar and chairman Jack Warner entered the hall, with people hugging, kissing, touching these new leaders, this new Executive sans (without) Basdeo Panday.
Persad-Bissessar, in her inaugural address, captured the mood. ’This isn’t about me...This is about a nation regaining itself, righting itself, resuming the path of real progress, stability and peace,’ she said.
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