To­day the spot­light will be on the Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress (UNC) in­ter­nal elec­tion when all but one po­si­tion on the par­ty's na­tion­al ex­ec­u­tive-that of po­lit­i­cal leader-will be con­test­ed. As the par­ty faces this ma­jor mile­stone, we look back at its ear­ly days, more than two decades ago, when it was formed fol­low­ing a split in the then rul­ing par­ty, the rul­ing Na­tion­al Al­liance for Re­con­struc­tion (NAR).

In 1988, Bas­deo Pan­day, along with Kelvin Ram­nath, John Humphrey and Trevor Su­dama, were ex­pelled from the NAR af­ter a dis­agree­ment with then Prime Min­is­ter ANR Robin­son. Pan­day then found­ed the Club for Love, Uni­ty and Broth­er­hood (CLUB 88) which be­came the UNC.

Here are some im­ages from our archives trac­ing some mem­o­rable mo­ments in the his­to­ry of the par­ty which now is the ma­jor part­ner in the Peo­ple's Part­ner­ship gov­ern­ment.

Can­di­dates

Can­di­dates in to­day's elec­tions

Deputy Po­lit­i­cal Leader Coudray, Mar­lene

Khan, Fuad

Lochan, Shavit­ta

Mo­hammed, Afi­fah

Mo­hammed, James

Mo­hammed-Ali, Eliz­a­beth

Mooni­lal, Roodal

Navas, Natasha M.

Ra­jkoomar, Doug­nath

Ram­bachan, Su­ru­jrat­tan

Ramjits­ingh, Sunil

Vol­ney, Her­bert

Chair­man Heru, Mooni­ram

Ma­habir, Ash­vani

Warn­er, Jack A.

Deputy Chair­man Ameen, Khadi­jah

Carew, Denise

Gopeesingh, Tim

Ou­dit, Lyn­di­ra

Ramdeo-Dabiedeen, Kavi­ta

Pol­i­cy & Strat­e­gy Of­fi­cer Jag­gasar Amar­nath

Par­tap, Collin J.

Ra­manand, Ramish

Ram­den­ny, Ravi

Ed­u­ca­tion Of­fi­cer Ben­jamin, Er­rol

Boodram, Glen­da

Phillips, Daphne

Roop­nar­ine, Nali­ni

Soogrim, Bob

Re­search Of­fi­cer Ma­habir, Nigel

Ma­haraj, Kr­ish­na

Ram, Arnold

Elec­tion Of­fi­cer Chin­chamee, Reynold

Dass­rath, Romeo Suresh

Hen­ry, Raul

Ram­di­al, Ra­mona

Trea­sur­er Archie, William

Sook­lal, Neela

Par­ty or­gan­is­er Ali, Sookram

Ka­mal, In­dar

Kara­pan, Ramesh

Moon­ian, Hay­man

Shar­ma, Chan­dresh L.D.

In­ter­na­tion­al Re­la­tions Of­fi­cer Ge­bodh, Na­dia

Mo­hammed, Shane

Ram­per­sad, Venet­ta

Re­gion­al Rep­re­sen­ta­tive To­ba­go

Dalips­ingh, Sean

Singh, Man­a­har

Thomas Ju­nior Bar­ring­ton

Re­gion­al Rep­re­sen­ta­tive North­east

Bha­gan, Stephan

Madeira, Pe­ter

Nandee, Ver­non

Richards, Yvette

Re­gion­al Rep­re­sen­ta­tive North­west

Her­ry, Pa­tri­cia

Ramdeen ,Gee­wan

Sim­mons Gary G.

Sylvester, Don

Wor­rell, Gail

Re­gion­al Rep­re­sen­ta­tive Cen­tral

Go­sine, Ra­jen­dra D.

Joe­field, Cather­ine

Ra­mad­hars­ingh, Glenn

Sook­nanan, Kr­ishen­dath

Re­gion­al Rep­re­sen­ta­tive South Boodram, Shan­ty

Pauls­ingh, Ken­neth

Ram­sa­roop, An­drew