Kamla Persad-Bissessar wins People’s Choice at Caribbean Global Awards

Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar has been named the 2025 Peo­ple's Choice win­ner at the Caribbean Glob­al Awards (CGA), fol­low­ing a pub­lic vote that saw her se­cure 3,850 votes—more than any oth­er nom­i­nee in a field of 58 re­gion­al lead­ers.

The award, the on­ly CGA cat­e­go­ry de­ter­mined en­tire­ly by pub­lic vote, was the sub­ject of an ac­tive cam­paign by mem­bers of Per­sad-Bisses­sar’s Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress (UNC). In the fi­nal week of vot­ing, UNC pub­lic re­la­tions of­fi­cer Dr Kirk Meighoo urged the pub­lic to sup­port her bid, not­ing in a May 25 Face­book post that she was trail­ing in fifth place be­hind St Vin­cent and the Grenadines Prime Min­is­ter Ralph Gon­salves, Bar­ba­dos Prime Min­is­ter Mia Mot­t­ley, Guyana Pres­i­dent Ir­faan Ali, and Ja­maica Prime Min­is­ter An­drew Hol­ness.

The re­sult was au­dit­ed and val­i­dat­ed by an in­de­pen­dent pan­el of 15 judges and ob­servers from across the Caribbean and in­ter­na­tion­al­ly. Or­gan­is­ers said the pan­el spent over five hours re­view­ing the process to en­sure ac­cu­ra­cy and trans­paren­cy.

The Caribbean Glob­al Awards cer­e­mo­ny is sched­uled to take place in Lon­don on Sep­tem­ber 27.