Prime Min­is­ter-elect Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar has praised the re­silien­cy of the Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress (UNC) on the 36th an­niver­sary of the par­ty's found­ing.

In a state­ment to the me­dia, Per­sad-Bisses­sar praised the found­ing mem­bers of the par­ty as "a group of com­mit­ted pa­tri­ots from across the length and breadth of T&T hud­dled un­der um­brel­las in the rain in Aranguez Sa­van­nah."

She said, "This marked the be­gin­ning of a re­mark­able po­lit­i­cal and so­cial jour­ney that has al­tered the course of our na­tion’s his­to­ry and con­tin­ues to shape and pos­i­tive­ly im­pact the lives of count­less in­di­vid­u­als."

Per­sad-Bisses­sar was the first woman at­tor­ney gen­er­al of this coun­try as well as first fe­male prime min­is­ter. She added, "From that group of po­lit­i­cal out­casts in the mud­dy, rain-soaked field of Aranguez, the UNC has to­day grown in­to one of the na­tion’s and Caribbean’s most pow­er­ful po­lit­i­cal en­ti­ties, which, on­ly two days ago, se­cured one of the most his­toric, com­pre­hen­sive, land­slide vic­to­ries in the re­cent­ly con­clud­ed April 28, 2025 Gen­er­al Elec­tions."

She said the par­ty is com­mit­ted to an even greater fu­ture for T&T, adding, "And it re­in­forces that to­day, the UNC re­mains re­silient and re­spon­sive to all do­mes­tic and glob­al chal­lenges and op­por­tu­ni­ties that con­front us as a peo­ple, well equipped and ready to re­build and re­store our na­tion to a place of peace, equal­i­ty and progress."

Per­sad-Bisses­sar thanked the sup­port­ers of the par­ty to the el­ders.