Basdeo Pandayprime minister of Trinidad and Tobago

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  • history of Trinidad and Tobago ( in Trinidad and Tobago: Independent Trinidad and Tobago )

    ...the United National Congress (UNC), which was supported chiefly by Indo-Trinidadians; the two Tobago seats went to the NAR, led by Robinson. The latter gave his support to the UNC, whose leader, Basdeo Panday, thus became prime minister. Panday was the first Indo-Trinidadian prime minister, and his government was the first in Trinidad and Tobago to be controlled by a party whose electoral...

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