PM Kamla takes office, immediately gets to work solving flooding problems

At exactly 4.30 p.m. on Wednesday afternoon Kamla Persad-Bissessar took the oath of office to become the first female prime minister of Trinidad and Tobago.

In a brief address following the simple half-hour swearing in by President Max Richards, the leader of the People's Partnership coalition reiterated her pledge to run a government of the people and to select a cabinet comprising the best that the country has to offer.

Among them, Attorney Anand Ramlogan, who immediately took the oath of office as a Senator and the country's youngest Attorney General. She announced that the will continue the process of building a cabinet, which will be sworn-in on Friday morning.

She gave a clear signal that the leader of Congress of the People (COP) leader Winston Dookeran will be the country's next finance minister as she stated that her government will be presenting an early budget as soon it determines the true state of the country's finances.

She also announced that there will be a Ministry of Tobago Development and a Ministry of Food Production.

The Prime Minister concluded her address by apologizing to the hundreds of guests for having the leave early because she had to meet with officials to discuss the floods that hit the country overnight to make sure that measures are immediately taken to deal with problems that people face.

She also said she has asked MPs to visit their respective constituencies to make an assessment of the damage and to get a sense of the needs of the people.

Persad-Bissessar also thanked her predecessor, Patrick Manning and his administration.

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