A BOOK on new Trinidad and Tobago Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar is being launched in Barbados at the end of this week.
It’s called Through The Political Glass Ceiling and deals with Persad-Bissessar’s race to the prime ministership. It contains selected speeches.
Author Dr Kris Rampersad says the launch is set for Friday at the Lloyd Erskine Sandiford Centre, Two Mile Hill, St Michael.
It takes place on the opening day of the Commonwealth Partners’ Forum and Women’s Affairs Ministers’.
Rampersad, who presents some analyses in the book, says it is set against “the backdrop of political polarisation versus social cohesion and cultural fusions in Trinidad and Tobago”.
The book also examines “the roles of gender and geo-politics among other factors in the contest for leadership between Persad-Bissessar as the first female leader of a political party in T&T and the country’s longest standing political entity, the People’s National Movement”, the author reported.
Rampersad is a journalist, researcher and writer who has been exploring the diversity of Caribbean society and cultures for some 20 years.
Her first book, Finding A Place (2002), captures from early journalistic writings the impact on literature of the encounters of peoples of the various mass immigration streams of the 19th Century, with special reference to the experiences of Indian descendants in Trinidad and Tobago. (TY)
