Akash Sama­roo

Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar has paid trib­ute to for­mer Na­tion­al Al­liance for Re­con­struc­tion (NAR) min­is­ter Her­bert Atwell fol­low­ing his death over the week­end, de­scrib­ing him as part of a gen­er­a­tion of po­lit­i­cal lead­ers who helped shape Trinidad and To­ba­go’s democ­ra­cy dur­ing one of its most defin­ing pe­ri­ods.

In a state­ment is­sued yes­ter­day, Per­sad-Bisses­sar said she was “deeply sad­dened” to learn of Atwell’s pass­ing and ex­tend­ed con­do­lences on be­half of the Gov­ern­ment and peo­ple of Trinidad and To­ba­go.