Kamla Persad-Bissessar was a big hit at the recent CARICOM meeting in Jamaica charming not only her regional colleagues but reporters as well.On Sunday, the GLEANER newspaper in Jamaica wrote a feature about the first woman to become Prime Minister of Trinidad and Tobago.
Kamla, accompanied by her sister, Wattie Newton, spoke about her life, her career, her love of children and her dedication to Jamaica, her second home.
She also spoke about her love for the music of Jamaica's cultural icon Bob Marley and told the Gleaner how his redemption song has remained an inspiration to the world.
Wattie, who left her job as a regional business manager of a pharmaceuticals company in London, England, to assist in Kamla's political campaigns is a big fan. "She is a fantastic person, lovely, a people person, loves family," Wattie told the Gleaner.
Kamla won the hearts of Trinidad and Tobago with her own charm, her history of service, her dedication to people and her commitment to end forever the ethnic polarisation that had divided her country for generations.
Her victory at the party level to become leader of the United National Congress (UNC) and later to become Prime Minister is attributed to her embrace of everyone.
Her must trusted ally, Jack Warner, who is a senior minister in her cabinet and the chairman of the UNC, shares her philosophy that "all ah we is one".
She told the GLEANER, "There is no Mother Africa, no Mother India, no Mother China, no Mother Europe, but you know what?...There is Grandmother Africa, Grandmother India; whatever we are, those roots are what shape us.
"The people who came just created this multiplicity, this diversity of talent and in the Caribbean we are so blessed to have this melting pot of people," she said.
READ the column: Kamla's charm sweeps CARICOM
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