Kamla, Penny congratulate Mottley on election victory

Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar and Op­po­si­tion Leader Pen­ne­lope Beck­les have ex­tend­ed con­grat­u­la­tions to Prime Min­is­ter Mia Amor Mot­t­ley fol­low­ing her his­toric third con­sec­u­tive vic­to­ry in Bar­ba­dos’ Feb­ru­ary 11, 2026, Gen­er­al Elec­tions.

Speak­ing on be­half of the Gov­ern­ment and peo­ple of Trinidad and To­ba­go, Per­sad-Bisses­sar praised Mot­t­ley’s lead­er­ship and the con­fi­dence shown by the Bar­ba­di­an elec­torate. She al­so con­grat­u­lat­ed the Bar­ba­dos Labour Par­ty on its de­ci­sive suc­cess and the peo­ple of Bar­ba­dos for a peace­ful de­mo­c­ra­t­ic ex­er­cise.

“This re­newed man­date re­flects the deep con­fi­dence of the Bar­ba­di­an peo­ple in Prime Min­is­ter Mot­t­ley’s lead­er­ship, and in the vi­sion, record, and achieve­ments of the BLP. Her re­sound­ing vic­to­ry stands as a pow­er­ful af­fir­ma­tion of trust earned and lead­er­ship proven,” Per­sad-Bisses­sar said. She de­scribed se­cur­ing a third con­sec­u­tive land­slide as an ex­cep­tion­al ac­com­plish­ment and a tes­ta­ment to Mot­t­ley’s com­mit­ment to na­tion­al de­vel­op­ment, re­silience, and progress.

Per­sad-Bisses­sar re­flect­ed on her long­stand­ing per­son­al and pro­fes­sion­al friend­ship with Mot­t­ley, dat­ing back to their ear­ly ca­reers as Caribbean at­tor­neys and col­lab­o­ra­tions on re­gion­al le­gal mat­ters, in­clud­ing a 2009 en­gage­ment in Saint Kitts and Nevis sup­port­ing a con­sti­tu­tion­al chal­lenge.

“Over the years, our bond has deep­ened as con­tem­po­raries in po­lit­i­cal lead­er­ship, serv­ing as Prime Min­is­ters of our re­spec­tive na­tions, unit­ed by com­mon de­mo­c­ra­t­ic val­ues and a shared re­spon­si­bil­i­ty to ad­vance the in­ter­ests of our peo­ples and strength­en Caribbean uni­ty,” she said. She al­so re­called her for­ma­tive years in Bar­ba­dos while pur­su­ing le­gal stud­ies at the Uni­ver­si­ty of the West In­dies, Cave Hill Cam­pus, and the en­dur­ing re­spect and af­fec­tion she de­vel­oped for the Bar­ba­di­an peo­ple.

Per­sad-Bisses­sar not­ed Mot­t­ley’s at­ten­dance at her swear­ing-in cer­e­mo­ny fol­low­ing the UNC’s April 28, 2025, vic­to­ry in Trinidad and To­ba­go, high­light­ing the strong ties be­tween the two na­tions. She said Trinidad and To­ba­go and Bar­ba­dos con­tin­ue to col­lab­o­rate on food and en­er­gy se­cu­ri­ty, cli­mate re­silience, eco­nom­ic in­te­gra­tion, and pro­mot­ing a stronger Caribbean voice in­ter­na­tion­al­ly.

On be­half of the Op­po­si­tion of the Re­pub­lic of Trinidad and To­ba­go and the Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment, Beck­les al­so ex­tend­ed warm con­grat­u­la­tions to Mot­t­ley and the Bar­ba­dos Labour Par­ty. “This out­come re­flects the con­tin­ued con­fi­dence of the Bar­ba­di­an peo­ple in Prime Min­is­ter Mot­t­ley’s lead­er­ship and her stead­fast com­mit­ment to na­tion­al de­vel­op­ment and re­gion­al en­gage­ment,” Beck­les said.

Beck­les not­ed that Mot­t­ley first as­sumed of­fice on May 25, 2018, mak­ing his­to­ry as the first woman to serve as Prime Min­is­ter of Bar­ba­dos. She said Mot­t­ley has since guid­ed Bar­ba­dos through sig­nif­i­cant eco­nom­ic re­form, the his­toric tran­si­tion to a par­lia­men­tary re­pub­lic in 2021, and am­pli­fied the voice of Small Is­land De­vel­op­ing States on the glob­al stage, par­tic­u­lar­ly in ad­vo­cat­ing for cli­mate jus­tice and eq­ui­table fi­nanc­ing for vul­ner­a­ble na­tions.

“We wel­come her re­newed man­date and look for­ward to con­tin­ued col­lab­o­ra­tion in the spir­it of part­ner­ship, progress and Caribbean uni­ty,” Beck­les said. She al­so ac­knowl­edged the De­mo­c­ra­t­ic Labour Par­ty and its can­di­dates for their par­tic­i­pa­tion in the de­mo­c­ra­t­ic process, adding that strong democ­ra­cies are strength­ened by prin­ci­pled rep­re­sen­ta­tion and en­gage­ment across the po­lit­i­cal spec­trum.

“The peo­ple of Bar­ba­dos have once again demon­strat­ed their stead­fast com­mit­ment to democ­ra­cy. As fel­low Small Is­land De­vel­op­ing States with­in CARI­COM, our na­tions re­main unit­ed in pur­pose, work­ing to­geth­er to ad­vance eco­nom­ic re­silience, so­cial progress and re­gion­al sol­i­dar­i­ty,” Beck­les said. She con­clud­ed by wish­ing the Gov­ern­ment and peo­ple of Bar­ba­dos every suc­cess and reaf­firm­ing Trinidad and To­ba­go’s com­mit­ment to deep­en­ing the bonds of friend­ship and co­op­er­a­tion be­tween the two coun­tries.