Yvonne Ba­boolal

Evok­ing mem­o­ries of the be­gin­nings of the par­ty, she said: "It was in 1955 that a group of peo­ple with a dream in their heads and a pas­sion in their hearts came to­geth­er to dis­cuss the his­to­ry of T&T and to craft a way to­wards the fu­ture. "The ear­ly meet­ings of the PNM must have been char­ac­terised by both ex­cite­ment and con­cern, for the state of the coun­try at the time and the pos­si­bil­i­ties that lay be­yond the hori­zon," Cox said. She said that 1955 com­ing to­geth­er would have been char­ac­terised by, among oth­er things, a de­ter­mi­na­tion not to give up, to bat­tle, to en­dure, to suc­ceed. "It rep­re­sent­ed a step­ping up from where we were, an un­will­ing­ness to stay where we were," she said.