PM: Stop blaming colonial past for T&T’s problems

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GUARDIAN MEDIA NEWSROOMJournalist at Guardian

August 30, 2026

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PM: Stop blaming colonial past for T&T’s problems

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Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar says Trinidad and Tobago must take responsibility for its post-Independence failures instead of continuing to blame its colonial past.

In her Independence Day message on Sunday, Persad-Bissessar said the country had failed to build on what she described as a strong foundation left by the British in 1962.

“We must confront our post-independence history with honesty and acknowledge that we should have done much better over the past 64 years,” she said.

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