“WHEN God says yes, nobody can say no,” Kamla Persad-Bissessar boldly declared in her victory speech on April 28 at her party’s Chaguanas headquarters – a testament to her patience like Job of the Bible.

For ten years, while she served as the first female and longest serving opposition leader, she, by her own admission, was humiliated, scorned and dismissed to the point of being politically irrelevant.

Yet like the proverbial phoenix, she has risen to secure her place as the ninth Prime Minister of TT at the age of 73.