Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress has hailed Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar’s 73rd birth­day as “no or­di­nary birth­day,” say­ing it marked a spe­cial mo­ment not just for the Op­po­si­tion Leader, but for the par­ty and the coun­try.

In a state­ment by Gen­er­al Sec­re­tary Pe­ter Kan­hai, the UNC paid trib­ute to Per­sad-Bisses­sar’s lega­cy ahead of a gen­er­al elec­tion due in just un­der a week.

“As we stand on the brink of his­toric elec­tions, it is fit­ting that we pause to­day to ho­n­our and cel­e­brate a woman who has giv­en so much of her life to the peo­ple of Trinidad and To­ba­go,” he said.