Clinton calls PM Kamla role model for the world

File: PM Kamla Persad-Bissessar and Foreign Minister Dr Suruj Rambachan at a meeting in the US with Secretary of State Hilary Clinton

American Secretary of State Hilary Clinton has described Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar a role model for women throughout the world.

She made the statement in a video message Wednesday at the start of the two-day regional colloquium on women leaders as agents of change at the Hilton Trinidad and Conference.

She said Caribbean-American women “have added in ways large, small and everywhere to the story of America and we see them as agents of change in our own country.”

She said throughout the Caribbean “we must ensure that women are able to realise their own God-given potential and allowed to participate in every democracy.”

Clinton said when women prosper their families benefit as well. In nthat context she said the American government supports the Caribbean region in its efforts to achieve greater gender equality.