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The prime minister of Trinidad and Tobago is the head of the executive branch of government in Trinidad and Tobago.. Following a general election, which takes place every five years, the president appoints as prime minister the person who has the support of a majority in the House of Representatives; this has generally been the leader of the party which won the most seats in the election ...
This is a list of the heads of state of Trinidad and Tobago, from the independence of Trinidad and Tobago in 1962 to the present day.. From 1962 to 1976, the head of state under the Trinidad and Tobago Independence Act 1962 was the queen of Trinidad and Tobago, Elizabeth II, who was also the monarch of the other Commonwealth realms.
A permanent secretary is the most senior civil servant of a department or ministry charged with running the department or ministry's day-to-day activities. Permanent secretaries are the non-political civil service chief executives of government departments or ministries, who generally hold their position for a number of years (thus "permanent") at a ministry as distinct from the changing ...
The head of the ministry is the Minister of Finance and is appointed by the President of Trinidad and Tobago on the advice of the Prime Minister. The incumbent, Mr. Colm Imbert, assumed office on September 11, 2015, and succeeded Mr. Larry Howai following the Trinidad and Tobago general election, 2015.
Dennis Francis (born 27 November 1956) is a diplomat from Trinidad and Tobago who has served as his country's permanent representative to the United Nations in New York since 2021. [1] From 2023 to 2024 he was President of the United Nations General Assembly at its seventy-eighth session. [2] [3] [4]
Trinidad and Tobago was chosen by its Caribbean neighbours to be the headquarters site of the Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) which was supposed to replace the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council in the fall of 2003. However, the government has been unable to pass legislation to effect this change.
The Minister of Foreign Affairs of Trinidad and Tobago is a cabinet minister in charge of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Trinidad and Tobago, responsible for conducting foreign relations of the country. The following is a list of foreign ministers of Trinidad and Tobago since its founding in 1961: [1]
His full title is Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary Permanent Representative to the United Nations for the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago. He presented his credentials to the Secretary-General of the United Nations, Kofi Annan, on 1 October 2002.