Akash Sama­roo

Lead Ed­i­tor - Pol­i­tics

akash.sama­roo@cnc3.co.tt

Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar has con­grat­u­lat­ed Grena­da Prime Min­is­ter Dick­on Mitchell on his Na­tion­al De­mo­c­ra­t­ic Con­gress’ re­sound­ing elec­toral vic­to­ry, adding “#Yel­low­Is­The­Code” to a mes­sage pledg­ing clos­er ties be­tween the two coun­tries.

Speak­ing on be­half of the Gov­ern­ment and peo­ple of Trinidad and To­ba­go last night, Per­sad-Bisses­sar al­so con­grat­u­lat­ed Grena­di­ans on ex­er­cis­ing their de­mo­c­ra­t­ic rights and de­scribed the out­come as an en­dorse­ment of Mitchell’s lead­er­ship.

“This de­ci­sive man­date re­flects the con­fi­dence and trust that the peo­ple of Grena­da have placed in Prime Min­is­ter Mitchell’s lead­er­ship, his poli­cies and his vi­sion for the fu­ture of their na­tion,” she said.

Her con­grat­u­la­tions fol­lowed yes­ter­day’s gen­er­al elec­tion, where pro­vi­sion­al fig­ures last evening placed the NDC ahead in 14 of Grena­da’s 15 con­stituen­cies. The op­po­si­tion New Na­tion­al Par­ty, led by Em­ma­lin Pierre, was ahead in St George North West as count­ing con­tin­ued.

This re­turns Mitchell for a sec­ond con­sec­u­tive term with a sub­stan­tial­ly stronger par­lia­men­tary po­si­tion than in 2022, when the NDC won nine seats against the NNP’s six. That elec­tion end­ed the ad­min­is­tra­tion led by for­mer prime min­is­ter Kei­th Mitchell and brought Dick­on Mitchell to of­fice.

In her state­ment, Per­sad-Bisses­sar em­pha­sised the long­stand­ing re­la­tion­ship be­tween Trinidad and To­ba­go and Grena­da, point­ing to con­nec­tions forged through gen­er­a­tions of in­ter­ac­tion be­tween their peo­ple.

“Trinidad and To­ba­go and Grena­da share deep his­tor­i­cal, cul­tur­al and eco­nom­ic ties, built up­on gen­er­a­tions of friend­ship, mu­tu­al re­spect and co­op­er­a­tion,” she said.

She pledged to build on those con­nec­tions dur­ing Mitchell’s new term, with a fo­cus on both bi­lat­er­al re­la­tions and co­op­er­a­tion with­in the wider Caribbean.

“As close neigh­bours, val­ued friends and Cari­com broth­ers, we look for­ward to fur­ther strength­en­ing our bi­lat­er­al re­la­tion­ship, deep­en­ing re­gion­al co­op­er­a­tion and ad­vanc­ing our shared in­ter­ests for the ben­e­fit of our cit­i­zens,” Per­sad-Bisses­sar said.

Per­sad-Bisses­sar wished Mitchell and his ad­min­is­tra­tion con­tin­ued suc­cess, while ex­press­ing hope that the elec­tion would ush­er in fur­ther pros­per­i­ty and progress for Grena­di­ans.

“May the bonds of friend­ship be­tween Trinidad and To­ba­go and Grena­da con­tin­ue to grow stronger.”